welding on a whipper snipper and fire

[fatcat]

Hi all not a landy thing but who knows i may use it when camping on the beach with the fendy, ok , what i am tring to make is a pushy powered from my old whipper sniper. what i want to do is weld a old bike peg onto the shaft which i hope is not allinium??? now the question i ask is how much care do i need to in taking all the fuel out of it so it does not blow up and leave me looking messy thanks all..

[JohnE]

what are you going to pedal the whipper snipper???

exactly how are you going to use it?

john

[LandyAndy]

Easy.Fill the tank with water.Drain/clean flush with metho a couple of times asap after.
Andrew

[moose]

Depending on how fast you are trying to go, I have seen one that was made from an old lawn mower motor and a BMX, had a fair size gear on the back wheel too from memory. It went ok, but certainly not overly fast. I would think the whipper snipper motor would need some serious gear reduction.

[long stroke]

A guy who lived near us use to have a whipper snipper motor on his bike and he would ride along the highway every day.
It seemed to get up to some pretty impressive speeds to:eek:
I'm interested in it so when you get going post some pics:D

CHEERS TIM.

[RobHay]

.............:eek:..............:eek2: ..................:burnrubber:

[fatcat]

thanks and will post some pics,

[awabbit6]

Why not take the fuel tank off while welding? They are usually easy to get off.

[dickyjoe]

Gday all

When I was 15 I made a Victa Powered BMX Pushbike. I picked up a few Victa lamnmowers from the local tip and a BMX pushbike. I horizontally mounted the engine into the frame and used a skateboard wheel to run on the crankshaft. Victas have a tappered crankshaft and had a boss that pushed onto the taper.

I had a Suzuki RM 250 Carb on the motor and man it used to go. I was clocked by the copper in the town I lived in riding at 90km/h up a hill out of the town. I have photos of it somewhere.

The fun ended when I crash landed and broke my wrist requiring SS screws to be inserted in my wrist.

Rich

[loanrangie]

My little bro made a powered bmx by mounting the engine over the front wheel and used a skateboard wheel with grooves cut into it using and angle grinder to drive the front tyre, the bloody thing could keep up with traffic. There were 2 long brackets that attached to the wheel studs and another of the top of the forks somewhere. I have one of those scooter engines with centrifugal clutch here that i'm still deciding what to do with.