Comment by madaxe_again
8 hours ago
You’d love how I’m starting my generator. Same drill. Hodgepodge of springs and string to manage the choke. ESP32 committing obscenities in the middle of all of it.
8 hours ago
You’d love how I’m starting my generator. Same drill. Hodgepodge of springs and string to manage the choke. ESP32 committing obscenities in the middle of all of it.
What is that one-way bearing TFA mentions. I understand its purpose, but where does one acquire such a bearing?
TFA has a link to the amazon page for the bearing used. It's a bearing plus freewheel clutch. Most commonly (and in this specific case) it means sprag clutch[1], but it may be e.g. a ratchet/pawl[2] (like most bikes have) or a roller freewheel[3].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprag_clutch
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device)
3: Couldn't find a wikipedia page for this, so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4OguQmyMM
If I understand the question correctly then you're asking about a sprag clutch.
When used in-line on a shaft like this, a sprag clutch permits torque to be transmitted out of the drill motor but not into the drill motor.
Any operation as a support bearing for the spinny-bits is kind of a secondary function at very best (and may be ill-advised; a sprag clutch assembly may be shaped kind of like a roller bearing assembly, but that doesn't mean that it will live long in that kind of role). :)
Had the same question. The article has an Amazon link to the bearings.
This absolutely deserves to be documented