Safety First! WARNING!! Keep Back From Blades!

How to Construct a Wind Turbine

Constructed by Joe, Howard and Paul Rowley

Why Build A Wind Turbine?

Increasing world energy needs Scarce fossil fuels Need for alternative energy sources Renewable Practically no pollutants Feasible build it yourself Fun!

Materials
Motor-260 volts DC 5 amps treadmill motor with a 6 flywheel 2 length of 8 PVC pipe #20 bolts in long(6) Washers(9) #20 screws in long ( Lock washers(6) 1 Sq foot of metal (for tail) 36 inches of 1 in sq tubing AV cart Weight for ballast (bags of salt, sand, etc.) Tools- Drill and Drill bits, thread tapping set, skill saw screwdriver, vise, clamp, wire strippers, awl, tape measure, tape, level, marker, compass, protractor, shovel, extra hand (+ beer for Dad)

Gathering Materials And Tools

Most of the screws and washers used in our wind turbine can be found at an ACE Hardware store. A lot of the materials we gathered were from surplus yards. For example the motor was a treadmill motor from Ebay.

Assembly

Measuring The Blades

Template

Cut the Blades

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Clamp To Hold PVC

Special PVC Blade for Skilsaw

Using Electrical Tape To Mark Where To Cut

Cutting Corners

9 Cuts Later

Motor

How to attach the blades???

Making A Template For The Flywheel

Template for drilling

Layout punch

Pilot holes for drilling

Drilling The Flywheel

Drilled Flywheel Ready for Tapping

Tapping The Flywheel

Marking The Blade for Drilling

Grinding Down Blade To Correct Length

Attach the blades

Drilling The Third Blade

Benchtop testing

Benchtop testing

Benchtop testing

Benchtop testing

Cutting The Tailpiece Tubing

Make the Tail

Paint the tail

Mount to AV Cart

Ballast

Its done Happy Dogs!

Mission Accomplished!

After finishing this project we literally dug into some fossil fuels