A WindMill for Gusty Places

This is a down wind facing windmill which was designed to ride through wind events without having a trip out mechanism. It delivers power through a verticle shaft to be used more convienently closer to the ground

Heres the full explanation on pdf. Here's the Flying Lizard in its service position. You can see the housing that holds the right angle drive, the sails, the caster and coupling the assembly rotates on. The driveshaft is inside the iron pipe going down to the load. This type of wind mill allows you to drive as large a generator, compressor or pump without having to hoist it up in the air.

By feathering its sails and furling in the wind due to the load applied on the output shaft., this windmill can successfully ride out gusty and turbulent wind events

Use your imagination just make sure that the right angle adapter is straight and secure and bolted down

Use your imagination. Use the hole in the adapter handle to keep it in place in the housing , make sure the output shaft is centered going down.

An arrow is put in the bowstring by a groove called a "knock". Use the knock to secure the shaft to the hub with a bolt or screw

The picture is a little fuzzy, but you can see the u nails holding down the sahfts. I used a little too much glue!

You may need some help with this . Try for a calm day. I screwed the bootm studs to the post, then used them as a fulcrum to raise the windmill.

Since the last edition the Flying Lizard has been changed to a five bladed rig with a welded steel hub. The shafts are fiberglass made from chimney sweeping rods. It wails in a thirty mph wind.