Using a car to run a mixer ??

GreatOaktree

This may be a bit far fetched but I'm in the market for a cement mixer and on done deal there is a paddle mixer minus an engine. I have a 99 ford mondeo diesel and it will not pass another NCT so my question is, Is it possible to marry the mixer and one of the drives from the mondeo ?? or for arguments sake to marry the splines from a drive to a PTO and use the ford engine to run mixer ?
Thanks in advance

CatFromHue

Jeez I dunno!

The first thing that stands out to me though is how many revs per minute do you want?

A car engine would be set up to do a large number (1-3000 on the low side) of revs per min whereas for your cement mixed you'd be looking at a fraction of that, maybe 5 -10.

GreatOaktree

But does it not come down to the revolutions of the wheel not the engine ?

mawk

Yeah, but even first gear is too fast at idle, and at idle you'll probably stall.

you can totally do as a scrapheap challenge type project and gear it down through a second gearbox, sprockets or sheaves. But probably not directly from the mondeo

aujopimur

This reminds me of an oul lad down my way with a side of the street petrol pump, during the power cuts in 70's he replaced the back wheel on a baby Ford with a pulley and used it to run the petrol pump.

eire-kp

Possible yes..gearbox would need the differential locked and the one half shaft connected to a sprocket connected to another sprocket by a chain and geared down to the appropiate speed.

Biggest issue would be the nned to mount your radiator and cooling fan as your mixer had an air cooled engine I would say.
Over all if you went ahead with it you wound end up with a ungainly lump of a machine!

GreatOaktree

I'd be using the whole car, Just parking it up beside the sand and jacking it up. I'd remove the two front wheels and wing. Remove the half shaft and weld a sprocket to it. That sprocket would turn the sprocket on the mixer via a chain. Is that correct ??

mawk

something like that would work. small sprocket on the car side, big one on the mixer side.

ratio is teeth on driver/teeth on driven

somewhere about 1/10 kinda ratio is guesswork kinda numbers, say 7 on the car side and 70 on the mixer

limiter12

Why bother. Sell the mondeo for scrap netting 150 and buy a bell mixer for 300 or this for 200 http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/plantmachinery/4580152 save yourself the hardship. Plus i had a bigger version of that type mixer and they are painful clean.