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Title: Degree wheel
Post by: Al Smith on March 15, 2011, 10:43:24 am
For those who need one  here's the hot set up .Copy a picture of this and paste it on an old CD or dvd .Cheap wheel .
Title: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: brokenbudget on September 11, 2011, 04:16:16 pm
does anybody have one they want to get rid of? friends were over last weekend and one of their kids got ahold of mine. it ended up being dropped and shattered like an old whiskey glass >:( of course they offered to buy me a new one, but nearly puked when i told them it was almost $200 to replace (nice blue comp cams 14").
i've had that wheel since the late '90's when i was deep into mustangs. it was kinda and old friend. ;) steve.
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Cut4fun . on September 11, 2011, 06:27:47 pm
Big ones are price but the 10'' to 11' are reasonable.

Summit racing   http://www.summitracing.com/search/Part-Type/Degree-Wheels/?keyword=degree+wheel&kr=degree+wheel

moroso has a 18" for $46, not as nice but the price is right.

Jegs http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/KeywordSearchCmd?storeId=10001&catalogId=10002&langId=-1&Ntk=all&Jnar=0&Ne=1%2B2%2B3%2B13%2B1147708&searchTerm=degree+wheel
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: brokenbudget on September 11, 2011, 06:57:33 pm
hmmm, the moroso one does look like a contender :) bigger is usually better ;D
don' the women say that also? :o
thanx chainsaw! if something else doesnt pan out by this coming weekend i'll probably grab that one.
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Al Smith on September 11, 2011, 07:36:06 pm
The ones put out by Crane are kind of pricey .On that though I just buy the mylar transfers from Mac Master Carr and put them on a piece of aluminum to use on chainsaws .I've made several and they work great .
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: brokenbudget on September 14, 2011, 12:30:20 pm
yeah al, that may work fine. however i like to use what i like to use. i'm going to be pretty firm on kristian to get me a good replacement for the one his boy broke. the thing i liked about the comp cams one was you didn't need to use a wrench on the stub to turn the engine over (car/truck), you just put your hands on it and twisted it. i liked the openings for this reason. it isn't going to be just for chainsaws. and i need a good one that will take the abuse. plus, the indented numbers and incraments were nice when your hands got dirty. sort of like a grip on a handle :)
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Al Smith on September 15, 2011, 06:06:12 pm
Well the larger they are of course the more accurate . However a big large wheel would be a gigantic pain in the behind to use on a chainsaw .
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: brokenbudget on September 15, 2011, 07:40:17 pm
it could be on some :) depends on what your using to hold it on their.
after you get rid of the handle and pull start, theres lots of room, after you use a 3" long adapter ;D
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: w8ye on September 16, 2011, 01:21:47 am
I just use the 8" ones and print them off with the printer and glue them to various things like thin plywood, Lexan, or acrylic sheet. Have used poster board too.  The reason for so many is that I mostly use them to set the ignition timing on chainsaw engine derived model airplane engines using a Hall effect sensor and a Neodymium magnet in a hub where the flywheel used to be. The Hall Effect sensor is the trigger for the CD type ignition system. It is shielded and mostly use NGK BPMR7F or NGK CM6 plugs. I do have some engines that run plugs with a 1/4-28 thread. I've been doing this for years.

I tried to upload a degree wheel but 100K doesn't get much more than a thumbnail.

PM me your email and I can Email you .jpg images of several different styles of degree wheels. Or cut4fun can give you my email address.
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Al Smith on September 16, 2011, 07:33:16 am
Gottya covered .
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Cut4fun . on September 16, 2011, 11:15:51 am
w8ye if Al's dont work out. http://www.tavia.com/free_degree_wheel.jpg
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: Al Smith on September 17, 2011, 04:57:24 am
Aha,that explains it .Often times in general conversations on the subject of port timing I use reference to the whell I use which is a straight 360 degree type .Others must use the type Kevin just put on which is a 180 left or right rotation which is used for cam timing on 4 cycles usually .

Kind of comical now that I know because I thought others were nuts with some of their figures and likewise they  to I . ;D

Obvious either type will work as long as you know which is referenced to .--ya gottsta have the rest of the story --
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: brokenbudget on September 19, 2011, 12:27:16 pm
thanx guys! i have a new comp cams 14" on the way. for the time being i do have an almost 9" copy sticking to a piece of aluminum sheet. :)
new one should be here in a couple of weeks. 8)
Title: Re: 14-16" degree wheel
Post by: w8ye on September 19, 2011, 08:37:45 pm
You can just Google "Degree Wheel" and download all the 8" paper degree wheels you want.
Title: Re: Degree wheel
Post by: rms61moparman on December 30, 2011, 10:41:49 pm
I have a couple of nice wheels in my computer but by the time I get them to CD size they are worthless.
I'll try this one and see how it goes!

Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: Degree wheel
Post by: mdavlee . on December 31, 2011, 03:25:53 pm
If they print too small like that you can copy and resize larger with your printer. Worked out pretty good.
Title: Re: Degree wheel
Post by: Cut4fun . on December 31, 2011, 03:41:13 pm
I merged the 2 degree wheel threads. There was other downloads and info in the other one to share here.