Homemade straight shaft

[scrooge]

Anyone made a straight shaft for their machine?????????

 

[PennyFinder]

Pvc works OK. Try this. I made a nice S shaft with a couple of 45 degree connectors and 3 lengths of pvc pipe, a foam bicycle hand grip and some silver paint.
I slowly squished the end of a lenght of pvc pipe in a vice and with pvc glue on the inside to let it dry in the vise for the coil connector. Drilled out a hole for the coil bolt.
Then I bolted a sawn in half 5" pvc coupling for an arm cuff and... Voila! a XL 500 beach shaft on the cheap.
It has a little flex to it but not too bad with a small coil and a slow swing.

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[musky8it]

I just made one, if you need a adjustable shaft. Click this link to see photos and what you need, only cost me $11.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?22,999991

 

[PennyFinder]

Weighs only a few ounces, super ultralight to swing, no shaft metal interference and best of all simple and cheap.


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[musky8it]

PF...looks like aluminum all the way to the coil bracket. Metal being that close to the coils top doesn't effect it? If id doesn't then I would have just used regular conduet, I thought I had to keep the metal shaft at least 5-6 in. away from the coil. I know on my ace 250 I can airtest on top the coil and it sounds off. But never airtested the top of the XL500 I made the shaft for.

 

[PennyFinder]

The only metal on it is the 2 screws holding the arm cup on. The entire stem is pvc, you can build almost anything with the stuff. Kind of like a meccano set, limited only by your own imagination.
The white pvc was painted silver to look more refined.

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