04-30-2018, 06:43 PM
Bruin,
I doubt the way you built or would build your Viel was any more expensive than the round about way I did my original Viel. I started out with the non motor version(around $100 US) planning to use one of the three extra motors I have. I did not realize that all three were too large.
I bought the 1/4 horsepower motor from Viel, another ($130) which worked fine. This was Generation I
(fixed speed motor with six inch drive pulley)
I purchased a variable speed motor from Penn State Industries (PSI) for $130. The Viel drive pulley has a half inch shaft. The PSI motor has a shaft diameter of fifteen millimeters. I had a motor shop reduce the motor diameter to half inch and install a reversing switch ($150). I adapted the PSI bracket to the Viel, just a couple dollars in misc. hardware, but tedious set up. This became Generation II. It could run slower, but not at an optimum speed.
Rupert gave me a smaller 3 3/4” Viel drive pulley and a mounting plate, which saved me the better part of $100. This became Generation III, which gave an ideal speed range.
Including the $100 saving from Rupert, my Viel conversion cost around $600, definitely not a bargain
With the modified Viel from sharpeningmadeeasy.com. ($165) and the PSI motor ($130), the cost is about half. Like you, I wish I had done mine that way. The work involved was much less and less tedious, too. (I did do my second Viel, the one for the article, that way. :
)
Ken
I doubt the way you built or would build your Viel was any more expensive than the round about way I did my original Viel. I started out with the non motor version(around $100 US) planning to use one of the three extra motors I have. I did not realize that all three were too large.
I bought the 1/4 horsepower motor from Viel, another ($130) which worked fine. This was Generation I
(fixed speed motor with six inch drive pulley)
I purchased a variable speed motor from Penn State Industries (PSI) for $130. The Viel drive pulley has a half inch shaft. The PSI motor has a shaft diameter of fifteen millimeters. I had a motor shop reduce the motor diameter to half inch and install a reversing switch ($150). I adapted the PSI bracket to the Viel, just a couple dollars in misc. hardware, but tedious set up. This became Generation II. It could run slower, but not at an optimum speed.
Rupert gave me a smaller 3 3/4” Viel drive pulley and a mounting plate, which saved me the better part of $100. This became Generation III, which gave an ideal speed range.
Including the $100 saving from Rupert, my Viel conversion cost around $600, definitely not a bargain
With the modified Viel from sharpeningmadeeasy.com. ($165) and the PSI motor ($130), the cost is about half. Like you, I wish I had done mine that way. The work involved was much less and less tedious, too. (I did do my second Viel, the one for the article, that way. :
)Ken