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a one night exhibition featuring some of my projects -
Southsea Deck Your Chairs - www.southseadeckyourchairs.tk/ and Love Your Bike Portsmouth www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/
Held at the Spring Back event for the South Coast Design Forum - SCDF - www.scdf.org.uk/
a one night exhibition featuring some of my projects -
Southsea Deck Your Chairs - www.southseadeckyourchairs.tk/ and Love Your Bike Portsmouth www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/
Held at the Spring Back event for the South Coast Design Forum - SCDF - www.scdf.org.uk/
This old wheel hub is part of a garden in Milltown NJ. The stamping on the hub says Phila. 1859. I would say it's been around for a while.
(1 in a multiple picture album)
This old wheel from an old wagon caught my eye. It is all that is left from a farm wagon left to deteriorate in the yard of the Yucaipa Adobe.
I've had this rear wheel for a long time and finally got the parts to rebuild the bearing and axle.Since rear wheelhub is rebuilt and trued installed new michelin inner tube and panaracer pasela tires. really like the skin wall for classic look and affordable or in my case was free. Pays to hold onto certain items as it will come in handy in the future.
home made puller in place. 36mm socket on the rear holding the rear inner race in place. About 20cm of high tensile threaded rod through the middle and some washers on the front of the hub to pull on it.
The shape of the inner bearing face means the hub easily centres itself. Turn the bolt on the front and slowly wind it in. Starts off nice and easy and just gets tight towards the last 1cm. There are lots of loud creaking noises towards the end sounding like you're over tightening it but it's ok. you'll know when it's fully on as the socket will slip on the nut rather than the hub turn as there's nowhere left for it to go.
It was returned to the dealer for two weeks after the installer expert drilled a hole into the internal gas line!!
my attempts to fit the rear ball joints myself using the sockets and threaded rod technique were going nowhere as I couldn't keep them true while winding up so I took both rear suspension arms plus the ball joints and bearings to a garage near work for them to do it properly with a press. Took them a few days to get round to it and picked them up this evening on the way home. £35 on labour wasn't bad I thought compared with the cost of replacing the components when I inevitably would damage them
Another shot to show roughly how far through the centre of the bearing the hub should be when it's fully home
Fitting the big circlips with the correct pliers this time. This just prevents the bearing slipping out.
The circlip has a rounded edge on one face and a sharp one on the other. You're supposed to fit them with a certain side facing the object to be held but I couldn't remember which. Doesn't matter here as the part of the bearing being held isn't rotating against it anyway