Resurfacing a flywheel

[benmychree]

The real reason there ground is the heat generated from use makes the material super hard and it tends to wrap when ground there flooded with coolant to reduce the reaction of more warping. At least that's how it was explained in vokie 45 years ago.

The coolant also keeps the dust down, an important issue.

 

[GoceKU]

I've resurfaced couple of flywheels on my lathe and is not too difficult if you have big enough chuck or and cut crank to bolt the flywheel to the only difficult i've experience is chatter when the cuter hits the bolt holes for the pressure plate, here is a link i've recently used an old flywheel to make an drilling table : http://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/shop-made-homemade-drill-press.60639/page-2