How to make spoked wheels

[g_kandylakis]

This tutorial was first made public as a series of posts in Small Flying Arts in 2014.

With the demise of SFA, it was rewritten as a complete tutorial and uploaded as PDF in the Plans Gallery of HPA in 2018.

It is presented here now, this time split in two smaller files, but with exactly the same content.

[Stunthenk]

Hey George,
Many thanks for the tutorial. Now I have to find an airplane with spoked wheels to model! If I do, i will be sure to use a two pound can of Greek olives for a weight!

[jose12]

Hi everyone, I was finally able to access the forum today after validating a new password. Anyway, that's not the point. I used that method to build my wheels for the Dyott Monoplane, and it worked, although I'll need to use a different thread.

[pedwards2932]

Not sure if anyone is interested in this.  Several years ago I did a 3D CAD of a spoked wheel.  It came out pretty good.  Probably not good enough for super scale detail but I thought it looked pretty good.  I never followed up to try to refine it just wanted to see if I could do it.

[gravitywell]

That looks amazing!  3D printing spokes....who would have guessed that that would work?