kunkle Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I am trying to make either a pedal or treadle powered blower from an old craftsman leaf blower. Before I spend too much time on this does anyone for see any issues? Thanks karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 What was the RPM of the original set up? How are you going to match that? What is the efficiency of the system you are going to use? Is there a reason why you want to go this route instead of a double lunged bellows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweany Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 One from the past. http://replay.web.archive.org/20030219214544/http://www.keenjunk.com/sketchbk/tc20203.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 more with a bike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLjV-NP7L8&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBower Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I saw a thread on another forum a while back, in which someone converted a leaf blower to a hand cranked blower using the back half of a bicycle, and was satisfied with the results. Just realize that the leaf blower was made to operate at high RPMs, so you'll need to generate some speed to get much "puff" from it. This guy figured he was getting 1100 RPMs, and that was good enough for his purposes -- but I don't know anything about his forge.homemade leaf blower to hand cranked blower conversion For some reason I can't see the Flash content in the post immediately before this one, so my apologies if I'm being redundant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric sprado Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Old style exercise bikes from yard sales for 3to5 bucks are the ticket for all sorts of powering. The wheel is out in front and you simply build a mechanism to lower whatever you want driven on to the wheel.Grinders,pumps,blenders(a local guy has a shaved ice machine on one),blowers.. I'm in process of hooking one up to my old Champion post drill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunkle Posted May 3, 2011 Author Share Posted May 3, 2011 Thank you all for the links. I figured someone must have done it already and I was trying to jump ahead on the learning curve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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