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Remotorizing the blower chute

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js5020

Hey nice work!  Looks to move at a nice steady speed.  I'd get some stops on it though, of course if you bring it back to far it will definetly get your attention and you wont want to do that again.

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AMC RULES

Very nice indeed...      :handgestures-thumbsup: 

did you fab up all the hardware yourself? 

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Coadster32

Really nice job!! :handgestures-thumbupright:

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timo4352

     :text-yeahthat:

 

very cool

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cleat

Make up a bolt on kit and offer it for sale. :)

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dclarke

I like that...... A LOT!  :thumbs: What did you use for a motor?

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Kennedy

Very nice indeed.

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HokieAg07

Very cool

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KC9KAS

Very nice fab work.

As I was watching the video I was wondering if the chute had stops or not, then I saw it spin 360*.

As someone else said, you will only blow the snow into your face once!

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tommyg

Pretty sweet! Thanks for sharing that!

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steve k

:music-rockon:  badass!

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AMC RULES

Make up a bolt on kit and offer it for sale. :)

 

:text-yeahthat:  I know I want one.   :handgestures-thumbsup: 

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boovuc

That is an extremely useful "Mod"! Anyone who has used their snowblowers for any length of time knows why you did it and for what reason! If I had a ten dollar bill for every time I had to get off the seat or stand up to "ooch" the shute a tad so it catches again, I could take a month off!

Very nice work! Make sure you have plenty of coffee so your awake when you start blowing! At least until you put a limiter on it! :) I do have a full face shield for a hard hat incase you don't have time!  

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Wheelbearing

LOL   no hard stops I want to take the top half of the chute off and make a video blowing the snow over the cab and label it Polish snow blower.  The motor is call a globe motor.  I got it from doing high school robotics competitions.  I did fab it all myself.  That is the exact reason I did this was the worm gear screwing up and not engaging the ring gear.  Drives you nuts.  As for a kit I'll talk with Matt and see if he wants to do one.    

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c-series don

I want one. If you build a bolt on kit I think you will have no problem selling them. I was going to design something like that but your design is better than what I was thinking! You build it I'll buy it !!

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timo4352

Now I wonder if you could motorize the deflector too?

That would be doubly cool. :bow-yellow:

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W/H JUNKY

That is so very cool. Very nice fab work. Thank you. For Shareing. Keep up the good work and great ideas

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c-series don

The deflector can be outfitted with an electric linear actuator. Another thing on my list of things to do!

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BPC23

Hey, that looks great and works well too.  I was planning to do the same thing.  Where'd you get the driven sprocket?

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cheesegrader

I love it!

It would be fun to tinker and try to build my own, but I'd love to see that come out in kit form.

I don't think I could do much better.

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shorts

I haven't tried it yet but it looks like a power window motor and segment gear might work.

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Wheelbearing

Hey, that looks great and works well too.  I was planning to do the same thing.  Where'd you get the driven sprocket?

I made it at work

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KATO

Thats WAY past cool :handgestures-thumbupright:

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SousaKerry

Are you riding the idlers on shoulder bolts with no bearing?  You may want to at least throw some bronze bushings in there as it won't take much water to rust those components together and bind up.   Great job though. :handgestures-thumbupright:

 

 

Oh and was the Doors tune in the background just an accident or was it a message?

 

This is the end.....

 

 

 

 

 

Or is it....

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