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Motorized Bicycle Invention

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Leonard Wood's Workshop: Half Size Holley Carb and Ford 429 Hemi Project! (Wood Brothers Racing)

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Leonard discusses his early forays into motorized inventions, including adapting a washing machine motor to power a bicycle. He expresses the desire to ride the motorized bicycle but jokingly admits that his brother-in-law (the owner of the washing machine) would be envious. This anecdote showcases his early ingenuity in repurposing and innovating.

Goal: Illustrate Leonard's early ingenuity in adapting motors for transportation.

Tools and materials

  • Bicycle — Base for the motorized invention
  • Washing machine motor Johnson — Powering a bicycle

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It, uh, works better if you have, uh, a wasp nest or something that you want to drive up and blow away. So, this is a device for which the rod was profiled along the outer contour. Of course, you see the tool path where the end mill has paved the race car where the end mill has gone. you know, when I was doing the profiling work on the exterior, but all the contouring on the exterior was done on this same fixture. Things that were screwed to the turntable on the machine. Quick check-in. I don't even know. I don't know. You've probably already accidentally accelerated to a hundred with something. Well, like, yes. Like legally in drag racing, I don't know. But I drove faster on the highway than I did in drag racing. Yes. Is that what, is that what the , uh, counter said? I didn't get any tickets or get in trouble, but I know I can't legally say how fast I was driving on the road . What is that down there? Is this a clamping device for the block? Oh, yes, the block was on it. Um, that particular device was for the intake manifold. You put it there and turn it however you want on the lathe . I mean, on a milling machine, you know, you could mill something or just hold it. So he's so smart about creating the right fixture to hold the part where he can machine it properly . What did you do here before you did miniature things, your ... In the beginning I was doing gearboxes, and I did that until 2014 . Somewhere around 30 years old, about 30 years old. And

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