We have had heavy winds and rain this past week and I thought the turbine sounded funny but due to the weather conditions I was unable to investigate the noise. Well today my biggest fear came true and my turbine threw the blades hub and all through my skylite. Of course I am at work, so my son and wife had to tie a tarp around the new opening in my roof. Thank god no one was hurt.
What bothers me is I thought I made every attempt to secure the hub to the shaft. First I cut a keyway into the shaft, then there are two counter sunk set screws which I loctited and backed them up with two more loctited set screws. Lastly I drilled an 1/8" hole through my hub and shaft and had a small rod go through both and then bent the rod over. My turbine is a treadmill motor.
As you can see from the attached old picture of my turbine and intact skylite, there were many places for the blades to fall but they found an 8'sq foot skylite to go through.
I was limited to were I could erect the tower due to the septic field and trees.
Otto

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