{"id":3547,"date":"2014-01-31T18:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T02:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/led-cyr-wheel-v2-leds-arrived\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:25","slug":"led-cyr-wheel-v2-leds-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/led-cyr-wheel-v2-leds-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Cyr wheel v2: LEDs arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I got my LEDs today! I did some basic testing, and they seem okay. That&#8217;s awesome..I saved like half the cost of buying them from a US supplier.<\/p>\n<p>The new wheel is bent; I used my Harbor Freight bender. Here are a few pictures of the setup. I have been using a fan to keep the hack\/motor cool. It works extra hard when going in one direction. My first wheel I bent with it got quite a bit of spiral, and I thought it might be due to the dies not lining up quite perfectly. So this time, I used the mill to make some shims that would center them correctly, and then pulled the top part together with some clamps. Still..I was getting spiral!! GRRRR. I think it is because the motor pulls down on one side, and makes it slightly off center. This became clear later on when I bent the insert; the bearing on the other side was trashed, and allowed it to be off-center. That might have been the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0705-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0705.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0704-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0704.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The roller is attached to some 2&#215;6&#8217;s to allow me to bend a full 20&#8242; piece without hitting the top of my carport.<\/p>\n<p>The bender has the Swag Offroad &#8220;extension wings&#8221; welded on, and the &#8220;pipe threader motor attachment&#8221; added. It works really hard in one direction\u2026but easy in the other. Next time, I&#8217;ll roll it through only going in the &#8220;good&#8221; direction, and build something to keep it aligned a little better. I can also attach a micrometer to it to measure how far i&#8217;ve move it and repeat the setup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only making 5 piece wheels from now on; they 3 piece are super light, but hard to travel with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0723-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0723.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below the pieces is the steel insert (3\/16&#8243; wall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my LEDs today! I did some basic testing, and they seem okay. That&#8217;s awesome..I saved like half the cost of buying them from a US supplier. The new wheel is bent; I used&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/led-cyr-wheel-v2-leds-arrived\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circus-and-silk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0704.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}