I am working on a little redneck engineering and I need some help.
I have a briggs and stratton 17.5 HP motor that has a 1" shaft that is like 3.125" long. It has a keyway.
I need to connect that to a shaft that is about 1/2"
They need to be inline.
The current shaft if splined and goes into a crank shaft.
The 1/2" shaft needs to be shortened by about 3 to 3.5" inches. So the splined part will be gone.
Does the 1/2" shaft have enough material to take a keyway or should it be respline and the adapter have the spline in it. I would like to go with the keyway just because the machining would be much cheaper.
My thoughts were to have a piece of rod stock about milled at one end to take the 1" shaft and then milled at the other end to take the 1/2"shaft.
I have a briggs and stratton 17.5 HP motor that has a 1" shaft that is like 3.125" long. It has a keyway.
I need to connect that to a shaft that is about 1/2"
They need to be inline.
The current shaft if splined and goes into a crank shaft.
The 1/2" shaft needs to be shortened by about 3 to 3.5" inches. So the splined part will be gone.
Does the 1/2" shaft have enough material to take a keyway or should it be respline and the adapter have the spline in it. I would like to go with the keyway just because the machining would be much cheaper.
My thoughts were to have a piece of rod stock about milled at one end to take the 1" shaft and then milled at the other end to take the 1/2"shaft.