Snowblower Modification

[CalG]

Maybe try gluing them on. And I don't mean some cheap hardware store super glue. If you know the materials that will be bonded you can maybe find an adhesive that will hold up. Try researching Henkel Loctite for some applications. They are gluing car body panels together now, I'm confident someone makes a glue that will hold some rubber on a plastic impeller.

Your confidence is in direct opposition to my experience.

Barring vulcanization, I contend there are no consumer products or processes that will bond an "attachment" to a blower impeller.

Hardware might.. for a while. ;-)

 

[tractchores]

Will be interesting to see how it does. I have a meteor too, but it has very little clearance.

 

[PILOON]

My Meteor has 3 blades and I plan to modify it to 4.
Meanwhile since I have a 3 speed PTO I run it at the mid speed (about 725 rpm) and that performs just great.

 

[Looking4new]

I also have a meteor, with 4 blades. I am watching this too.

 

[Baby Grand]

Your confidence is in direct opposition to my experience.

Barring vulcanization, I contend there are no consumer products or processes that will bond an "attachment" to a blower impeller.

Hardware might.. for a while. ;-)

I have the same doubts. A lot of the automotive bonding depends on large surface areas of materials having similar properties with low dynamic forces. With adhesive attachment of tips to a composite impeller it's going to be tough to match tip to impeller properties. Then there's the high dynamic forces, spread over a small surface area, on a rotating mechanism that's doing mass transport of an inconsistent material. Actually sounds like a fairly good recipe for bond failure.

 

[srs]

Regarding the installation, you only need to do two opposite paddles on a 4-way auger.

Did you only do 2 paddles or all 4?

 

[DABSGT]

Does the modification affect the impeller balance at all?

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[AStanton]

I did only two, opposing impellers. I wondered about upsetting the balance also. However, as the poster on YouTube pointed out, when you are blowing snow, the snow load on each impeller is always dynamic and changing.

 

[HEC]

I was out blowing some non sticky snow today and not one bit of it filled in the gap like a previous poster mentioned would happen . I can put my fingers between the gap on my meteor blower . I will make this mod come warmer weather for next winter on the meteor .

 

[Parkanzky]

I have the same doubts. A lot of the automotive bonding depends on large surface areas of materials having similar properties with low dynamic forces. With adhesive attachment of tips to a composite impeller it's going to be tough to match tip to impeller properties. Then there's the high dynamic forces, spread over a small surface area, on a rotating mechanism that's doing mass transport of an inconsistent material. Actually sounds like a fairly good recipe for bond failure.

I agree. I think the only hope I'd have is to drill holes and through-bolt with a fender washer on the back-side to distribute the stress a bit. And I think it will make a lot of noise when those paddles finally fail.

Of course, that would give me the excuse I'm looking for to upgrade to the metal impeller...