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woody928:
Evening All,

I had some really bad news earlier regarding the rebuild of my wheels. When the hubs came back from shot blasting it was noted that the rear brake drum lining had hairline cracks in four separate places and is buggered.

What are my options as to how to proceed?

I can't see that off the shelf replacement hubs are available and from my research I can't seem to find anyone easily who can reline a brake drum. It's clearly a specialist job from the looks of this and a known issue given Ken's previous warnings to me.

What have others in this position done?

I have told the wheel builder to hang fire over the weekend before proceeding any further with painting the hubs and rebuilding the wheels. Is this something I should be fixing while the hub is dissembled in its current state? or am I able to get this done having had the wheel rebuilt? The wheel builder was suggesting that it was better to rebuild the wheel and then sort this post rebuild.

To make matters worse I was hoping to have the bike back on the road within the next month for a big roadtrip however I'm guessing that will be  a no go given the issues at hand. I"m happy to throw some money at it, I just need it done...  :-[

For what its worth I'm in the SE of the UK, Surrey way however also happy to travel a bit.

K2-K6:
PM to Trigger on here as I believe he's equipped to reline these hubs,  you'll soon find out though  :D

For material,  people are using new suitable sized car drums as a scource and produce a liner to fit from correct grade for this purpose.

Bryanj:
I had some done by a man in Huddersfield

Rob62:
Can you get a temporary spare wheel fitted so that your road trip can still happen...?

Bryanj:
What actual bike is it for? I still have one of the three i had done somewhere, cont remember if its wheel or just hub, you might be able to convince me to loan it out if its the right one and as long as i get one back with good drum dont care if its yours or mine

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