no, but the topic has come up more than once…
figured collecting the pieces might be appropriate
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Hey @Izambard_K_Brunel it’s like our ‘french pull’ from a couple days ago!
How hard would it be to mod a stationary bike for 'fuge power?
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nearly impossible…as even a world class cyclist only spins the cranks at about 120 rpms.
i dont even think a normal person can generate enough watts to power a centifudge…so bike powered is gonna have to be a no…
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But with a hundred tooth chainring and a ten tooth sprocket…hm wheres sheldon brown when you need him lol
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i learned a lot about wheel building from his website.
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The gear calculator is priceless and the inspiration his o.t.b. bike tho…nuts
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pedal powered air compressor to run an air spindle
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I’m all up for eco friendly power but I’m more for a victorian approach and making things far more dangerous than they need to be.
I feel what we need is solar stills, super heated steam and turbines.
I think it would be spectacular !
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This alternator from a 1979 Honda Civic needed about 1800rpm
This desktop fuge is at least 60 years old. Spins the rotor as you see it.
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You are a madman
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That’s just one of my early “electric bikes” (circa 2013)
More sophisticated than the first one, where we mounted a shopping cart wheel to the alternator, and just ran that against the stationary bike tire. (Circa 1997)
As for the fuge, I might be able to talk the current owner out of it if I claimed I was gonna make it pedal powered…but that was not what I was trying to imply.
Just that gearing a bike up & getting 300W out of a monkey can be achieved🤓
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you savage 
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This is exactly the level of kludge brilliance I’ve come to expect of you
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Kludge you say?
Try starting a car with a stationary bike…(I suspect this was a fail. Don’t recall). Guessing the power was out.
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Running a Zap bike motor backwards. USB, 1.5V (AA &AAA) charger, and 19V for a laptop too.
The one with the alternator in it also has 110V out. Given it requires a battery to run the alternator, it could probably power a panda… at least intermittently.
Edit: note that it has an actual cigarette lighter. So that one can pedal up fire if need be… I prefer using DC generators because you don’t need 12V to get things started.
The 1997 build also did not require 12V, but I’m unclear how we managed that, I believe it required a specific alternator AND getting it up to speed.
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Ok … no joke, give me a few months.
i will make a solar still with a steam turbine.
The bar is set ! lol
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I bought it on Amazon. I will power it via solar.
I have 5 bar of shs to play with.
I will ask the cad crew to conjure up a turbine and then make it all from stainless and running at 300 / 500 bar.
Then we should get some tidy centrifugal going.
The knocking is just because its cold lolol
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Its been a long weekend, had some difficulties but here’s my progress so far.
I think by next weekend i will have it up and running.
You cant really see me, im underneath at the back measuring my end play.
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That’s a real pretty turbomolecular you got there man
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This is fucking gold lol
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