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Rear hub issue - 550 k3
matthewmosse:
I may be able to hop out to the shed sometime and look for any spare hubs amoungst my collection of bits. Will not be a fast option as I have a broken foot and am doing what I can for childcare to ease the burden on my better half. However I should have a few spare hubs / wheels as I try to stockpile broken ones to fix at my leisure if they come up cheap with cracked liners - something I enjoy the challenge of fixing on my lathe. I may have taken a chance on a rotten wheel with poor description that has a good hub or something.
hunterso:
Thanks Matthew
That would be really great.
Would be nice to get one with a good liner too
Thanks
matthewmosse:
Liners are not an insurmountable job, £40 last time I asked for the guy in Huddersfield to do one, that was a fair few years ago now, I do my own or have done, been a while now. Probably pays for itself in a few sets of shoes lasting longer not to mention stopping that rear pedal pulsing or indeed the peace of mind that a lump of cracked liner might come away and jam the rear wheel.
Ewan 500 K1:
.. new liners can be machined from morris minor hubs :o ...... appraently
matthewmosse:
Pretty well what I did but not a morris drum, a car out of the local river, dumped after it caught fire in the 80's was the source of my 'new' drum liner. Job requires a lathe with enough swing over the bed for the bare hub, a freezer and either removal of the hub bearings and use of an oven, or gas torch if the bearings are reluctant to move. Luxury is having a lathe like my new(er to me) lathe which can handle the full wheel, tyre included. Easyest fix is comstars off a 650 nighthawk, reading this forum I'm glad I have a few spares stocked up, especially as I intend to be using my 500 all year round again soon and like the convienience of having a spare on the shelf with a good tyre, I really hate changing tyres in frosty weather in an unheated barn - probably why every bike I own has a spare set of wheels.
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