> From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:06:21 -0700 > > I think we need to be looking at PTO's for Vanagons to drive oversize > margarita blenders. <friday> Put in a Syncro transmission and use the front driveshaft connection as the PTO. Very early splitties came stock with crank handles. The handle fit through a hole in the rear cooling tin and mated with a special bolt head on the crankshaft pulley bolt. Maybe something like that could be rigged for a Vanagon. I recall an (Indiana Jones?) movie where the bad guys had a hideout out in the woods. They had taken an old pickup truck, put the back end up on blocks, and installed a wheel with no tire on it. There was a flat leather belt looped around this wheel that went to another pulley that in turn drove a water pump or generator or something. You could build something like a chassis dyno - two big rollers on a platform. Drive the van up onto the rollers, the tires spin the rollers, and the rollers are hooked to the margarita mixer. I've seen a smaller version that involves the top half of an electric blender from the thrift store, and the prime mover from a weed-whacker. The 90 A alternator would probably support up to a 1 hp 12 V electric motor if the electric motor was not run at a high duty cycle. </friday> Matt Roberds |
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