DIY Pottery Wheel 

lol, thanks! It's fun to overbuild things sometimes

wow, that's cool! thanks

haha, thanks! I have had to work a lot lately so no time to work on my projects but hopefully soon I'll make a video about either my electric go kart conversion or my rc tank in working on

thanks... i was able to fool her when I was building it by saying (she was sitting in the chair next to me when I was building it) I was making a welding turn table. So she was pretty pleased when she watched the video and saw it was for her

haha, my wife always says "happy spouse, happy house"

Thanks, the top bit was just something I found at a junkyard that looked cool. I thought it was too low so I machined in some slots on the top of the aluminum bowl to attach plastic guards to make the walls higher on the side your hands are not on (but the wife never puts them on for some reason). I did run the drain tube through the housing as it jusrt happened to be the lowest gravitational point in the bowl but it goes to a water tight tube to the drain a few feet away.

lol, thanks, the suprise was I told her I made a youtube video and if she could spell check it for me (I am literally the worst person I know at spelling). Thats when I told her what I had been working on for the last few weeks... I should have recorded that now that I think of it

No problem, Was thinking about making a video on how I converted my Kiln to the 21st century (no more cone nonsense) on a budget too one of these days

Thanks. The motor has internal gearing that bring the max rpm to something like 400 rpm and there is a dc speed controller to vary the speed from 0-400rpm

We live kind of far from civilization so ordered clay online... weeks, going on months ago and we are still awaiting the USPS.... I actually need to finish making the speed control pedal too but I thought that was too boring to make a video of

@@HuskyMachining Pls Make a video on speed control pedal too. Love from India.

@@shaikazeem0551 damn, I went the easy way and bought a 10k pot peddle online as it was just so cheap and easy to wire into the wheel.

The motor has a gearbox attached and I used #40 chain and sprockets with an additional gear reduction

we kinda got distracted lately making solid rocket motors but she did use it once but then we desided it needed a pedal to control the speed so im making that now (well its been sitting on my work bench waiting to be finished)

I did add a pedal. I bought one of those cheap 10k pot pedals and it's working well

@@HuskyMachining Do you maybe have a link for that? All the ones i can find are used for golf carts and are spring loaded.. using something like a volume pedal (for an electric guitar) would be perfect..

that might be possible... I assume you want to make a electric one? if you have a welder and grinder the biggest cost will be the motor ($70 on eBay for a 300 watt gear dc motor), probably another $50 for chain and reducing spockets.... now that I think of it... its totally possible to build for about 300 and ill help ya design it if ya want

@@HuskyMachining waaaaaaaaaaa

@@HuskyMachining I never expected such a generous response. Thank you. How should we correspond? Fair warning, this is a project I am not yet equipped to do in a short period of time. I would profit off of it greatly if you were to help me succeed.

@@user-nz6vm3wf9n makes sense... my projects tend to take a while too. I think you can DM on here somewhere... ill shoot you over my email and we can start designing it

although I cant find a place to DM you on your about page..... can you send me a message and ill respond to ya?

it was a bit on the heavy side

yeah, I have always liked building things but when I started 7 years ago all I had was a harbor freight welder and a grinder.... This could have been build with just a grinder and a welder if you can build the spinning platter out of wood (or a round cutting board) and I got everything else from ebay

@@HuskyMachining OK, have a motor from a washing machine and want to build a pottery wheel. Expanding my workshop: Wood - Ceramics ...

@@VielMeinungWenigAhnung that's totally possible... let me know if I can help ya out at all

I bought everything via ebay so I'll grab the links in a second and put it in the doobaly-doo below the screen

Awesome man. Appreciate it. Are you happy with the speed, torque, and braking of the system?

@@laviathan4 Hey buddy, I posted the links for the parts I bought for this build in the about section

Awesome! Thanks man! Has your wife used it yet? Is she happy with it?

@@laviathan4 The wife loves it! I just need to get around to making a kiln vent so we don't die from all the fumes

I had the steel and aluminum laying around but the motor cost about $100, the speed controller was $20, the chain and sprockets were another $20 and about $40 for switches and what not so all in for me it cost about $180

@@HuskyMachining could you please provide me with more info on exact materials being used in this project along with wiring if possible. I was looking for this kind of sturdy build for my son, not with the steel or aluminum though. I wanted to try with steel tube structure. Please help me.

lol, I listen to what happens to fancy me that day

lol, it is my favoite way to make things!