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Lurker wrote:I think I can sort the engineering of the spinny pointy bits
But I am at a loss for ideas of a way to make the cardinal points
By the way...... Why do weather vanes traditionally involve big cocks?
Lons wrote:I've thought about making a weather vane for years and never got around to it however I was planning fitting the support rod into bearings as I didn't realise they sat on a point so presumably bearings wouldn't work?
Lurker wrote:I made one years ago using a rod and a tube, with a ball bearing sat ontop of the rod.
My current dilemma is making some stylish N,S,E &W.
Andy, is that vane potentially on the market? If yes please PM
AJB Temple wrote:That's a very good idea Bob. Did you use a cup shape rather than a point (which would wear fast I suppose) on the pin?
To be fair, the one I made for my parents is pretty old now and is just a pointy rod in a piece of metal drilled with the same angle as the point, then greased. It is just an arrow though, with NSEW markers on rods around it. Proper schoolboy stuff.
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Andy, is that vane potentially on the market? If yes please PM
sunnybob wrote:
But seriously...... the shape of a cock is ideal for a wind vane. front to back isnt very long, so less balancing problems, but the tail can be big enough to overcome the beak resistance and therefore always swing into the wind.
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