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bored 0.001 or 0.002 in. smaller than the shaft, clamps the shaft and prevents
the key from working loose. A steel wedge driven into the hub slot is used
to put the wheel on the shaft. The diameter of the clamping bolts is made
about one-sixth the shaft diameter. Sometimes the hub is split clear
through, as shown by the dotted lines below the horizontal center line in
Fig. 26—4. This procedure has the additional advantage of relieving the
shrinkage stresses in the arms to a certain extent.

Fic. 26-1. Flywheel with a split hub. Fic. 26-5. Split flywheel.

A flywheel made in two halves should be parted on an arm rather than

between arms, the latter method giving a joint only half as strong as the
former, as shown in Table 26-2. The halves are connected by bolts through
the hub and near the rim, and also by shrink links, as shown in Fig. 26-5,

Fic. 26-6. Split disk flywheel. Fic. 26-7. The Haight rim joint.

or by shrink anchors, in Fig. 26-6.

as The anchor connection has the
advantage of easier and more accurate machining, which assures that the
desired force will be created when the anchor is shrunk into place. If the
rim section is made I-shaped, as in Fig. 26-7, the anchors can be so propor
tioned that the joint will be as strong as the rim proper.4
4H. V. Haight, "A High Efficiency Flywheel Joint," American Machinist, Vol. 51
(February, 1907), p. 267; also Halscy, op. cit., p. 73.