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Weather Vane DXF Files

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Does anyone have files for a weather vane?
Rooster, bull, whatever......
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I have a couple... I'll dig em out.
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Question on weather vanes, windmills, ect. Do you use bearings for the rotating parts? I would like to make some weather vanes but not sure how to secure the rotating part and if bearings are needed. Thanks for any help.

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danny, i've made a few with a very complicated bearing system that work vey well. the slightest breeze moves them. but very cost effective. but i saw on a home show a weathervain beening installed. i'll try to explain as simple as the ideal. you have two pipes. inside being small and attaching to the roof. the height of the pipe will be the bottom of the arrow. the outer pipe is connected to "vain" is comes down to the top of your N-S-E-W. you need enough lengh to keep it form going airborn maybe 12". on top of the inside pipe you place a ball bearing large enough to not fall through the pipe. yet small enough you can slide the outer pipe over it. i.e. 1/2" pipe, 1/2" bearing, 3/4" pipe. the top of the bearing need to ride on a flat surface to acheve the spinning motion, cap the pipe some how. then apply grease. hope i made that simple. :idea:
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I make mine with no bearings. I take a pipe, with an I.D. a little bigger than 1/2", about 4-6 inches long, and weld it to the Rooster part of the vane. Then I take the garden stake which is made from 1/2" solid about 5 feet high, and grind a point on the end. The contact point is so small that it has no problem spinning. After a while though if you don't throw some grease on it, it does squeak.
I weld my compass letters to the garden stake.
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Thanks for the replies. I will give it a try.

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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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just want to clairify. thats a ball bearing
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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I have a picture of my completed weather vane, I am just not sure how to post it! Can someone help?
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When you hit "post reply" on this page, You'll see below the reply box a tab that says "upload attachment". Click on that then "browse" to find your photo, Then "add the file", then click on "place inline" the message and hit submit.
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Re: Weather vane

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Scratch wrote:By the way... that ugly rooster is my best seller for some reason... :roll:
New to plasmaspider. I must say you all post some nice stuff. If I could, what gauge you cutting these weather vanes out of? 14 gauge maybe? 12?

Thanks in advance!

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I make my weather vanes out of 14 gauge mild steel.
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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Mine was also made out of 14 Gage. (The bear)
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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I cut my weather Vane =3.4 mm (10 GA.) Mild steel.
I`m sorry if i write incorrect :)
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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Does anyone still have a copy of the weathervanes.dxf that can be reposted?
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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is this what you need
W.DXF
SLBW0524.dxf
S.DXF
P4.DXF
P3.DXF
P2.DXF
P1.DXF
N.DXF
E.DXF

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WEATHER VANE

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MAYBE THIS ONE

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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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Yes this is what I was looking for. Thanks a bunch for the overwhelming quick responses.
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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Those look a little squished to me so I thought I'd repost the originals I posted:

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Re: Weather vane

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Scratch wrote:I make mine with no bearings. I take a pipe, with an I.D. a little bigger than 1/2", about 4-6 inches long, and weld it to the Rooster part of the vane. Then I take the garden stake which is made from 1/2" solid about 5 feet high, and grind a point on the end. The contact point is so small that it has no problem spinning. After a while though if you don't throw some grease on it, it does squeak.
I weld my compass letters to the garden stake.
I do something simular, I use some 3/4 OD x .120 wall x .510 ID DOM tubing that I get from http://www.metalsdepot.com/products/hrs ... cc=$LimAcc

May be a little pricy, but it is a nice fit on the 1/2" rod.
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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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Very cool...

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Re: Weather Vane DXF Files

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I'm going to try this thx
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