I'm looking for some very small pullies for a modeling project, something under
24" HO wide. I tried Bluejacket ship modeling but they didn't seem to have anything quite like what I'm looking for. Any ideas? James F. Hodgdon Jr. Hodgdon Scale ModelsJames, Here's something from Grandt Lines - looks kinda big to me though...
Model Expo has a lot of sheaves - but I don't know the thickness. Search for pulley or sheave at
Try W. M. Berg, inc. at
Dave Decker
Hdgdn wrote:
James, Don't know if you want to be bothered with doing this but I turned some pulley wheels for a water tank with a piece of wood dowel rod stuck in my Dremel using small files and knife. It took several attempts but they work The pulley wheels are a bit over sized and had to be for the chain to fit. In HO they are about 9" in diameter and about 6" thick. I drilled a hole in the dowel with a pin vice first so a small piece of brass wire for the pulley wheel to turn on. Flat brass stock was used for the fitting or mount or whatever its called again with holes drilled to take the brass rod. Two pieces of flat brass stock were soldered together except for the end so they could be bent out and around the pulley wheel. Just above the point where the stock is separated to accept the pulley wheel it was twisted 90 degrees so the assembly could be mounted flat against a wood brace and two holes were drilled to take bolt castings. You can get dowel in many sizes so you should be able to find one about the size you need or a maybe little larger that can be turned down some. One hint that will make turning a slot in the dowel and for cutting it off with out splitting the wood of having small chunks come off is to use a #11 blade to start the grove and to make the cutoff. The file seems to wander and make a mess of things unless it has a small cut to guide it and can not be used to make a clean flat cutoff. Even so you will probably make three or four pulley wheels to get two good ones because of wood chipping away between the slot and the cutoff edges. The pulley wheel will fly away when its cut so be careful or it will warp into the dropped small parts zone and never be found. Bruce
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