Dc Flywheel to original pulley on a dc motor

[kelroy]

I was wanting to use my original pulley and also still use dc flywheel/ fan. Is this possible and or safe.

I am open to ideas.

Thanks:thinking:

 

[Tony Wells]

The original reason for the flywheel on the treadmill is to smooth the energy flow for foot-falls on the belt, but there's no reason you couldn't use it. Do you mean also use the original poly-vee pulley setup also?

 

[kelroy]

Yes iI would like to. I believe helpful to the motor to retain the flywheel.

 

[Pacer]

I have adapted 6 or 7 of the treadmill motors to various machines and I decided pretty quickly that trying to retain the flywheel 'as is' was a lot of unnecessary hassle. IIRC that is a 17mm shaft, and I never have any thing that will fit the motor shaft anyway, so what I do is to cut the hub out of the flywheel - either trepan on the lathe or trim it out on a bandsaw - that lets me keep the left hand threads and be able to use it to act as a bushing for whatever pulley setup I am wanting to use on that particular machine, some times having to bore the pulley to a size also.

I have never seen any hint of a problem not having used the flywheel...Ive got a lathe, drill press and a bandsaw running TM motors now.