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crackmonkey YaBB Newbies Offline nothing to see here. keep moving Posts: 42 Hagerstown, MD Gender:	Re: The project begins Reply #165 - 01/26/11 at 05:01:27 vw guys have a similar tool for removing the rear axel nuts. it bolts into 2 of the lug holes. they work really well. for clearance there is an arc cut out of the bar that goes around the area of the axel nut
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Reply #166 - 01/29/11 at 10:46:30

Now it's time to clean up this pig.

More examples of rough casting and bits that weren't machined at the factory.

I think I'll end up painting the center section and polishing only the outer parts. Here's a shot of one side pretty much raw and then the other side with a little sanding and a bit of hand-applied polish to see how it's coming along.

If I were a machinist, I'd mill a lot of mass off the hub. Hell, If I could just mount it on a lathe to make the sanding easier. Undecided

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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #167 - 01/29/11 at 11:20:31 And then there's the front hub. Close-ups show all the roughness I need to work on. More signs of it being an entry level bike. It'll take some finesse to grind off the casting info thing without leaving a flat spot or gouges. The ends will be no fun to do.
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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: The project begins Reply #168 - 01/29/11 at 12:36:07 Why not take the hubs to a machine shop and have the casting "roughage" turned off?
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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #169 - 01/29/11 at 13:08:39 Yeah, I'm looking for a machine shop to help me. But the more I do by myself, the more rewarding the end result.
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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #170 - 01/29/11 at 13:09:33 Another before and after shot, this time of the valve adjustment covers.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: The project begins Reply #171 - 01/29/11 at 13:32:52 I made a strap out of leather & hung it on the front spindle of the only really nice bicycle I had. It kept it polished for me.
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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #172 - 01/30/11 at 13:30:29 Well, I put my man pants on and tackled the roughness on the inner part of the rear hub. Here's the before, showing all the flash on the ridges. Here's my lovely thumb doing it's thing with some 220 grit paper. And here's the same spot about 10 minutes later. The black spots are voids.
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crackmonkey YaBB Newbies Offline nothing to see here. keep moving Posts: 42 Hagerstown, MD Gender:	Re: The project begins Reply #173 - 01/30/11 at 13:34:07 those are man pants i dont want to wear... ha ha ha looking good man
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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: The project begins Reply #174 - 01/30/11 at 13:45:55 Ugh. I don't think I'd have enough zen in me to do ONE of those hubs per decade. Sans lathe I might stick the axle back in and rig up something with that erector set (or wood) to hold the axle horizontal. Then get at it shoe-shine style with a strip of plumber's cloth. Or stock up on nitrile gloves
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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #175 - 01/31/11 at 04:26:15 All the sanding I'm doing must be good for a pound or so of weight loss on the bike.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: The project begins Reply #176 - 01/31/11 at 05:30:42 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/29/11 at 13:32:52: I made a strap out of leather & hung it on the front spindle of the only really nice bicycle I had. It kept it polished for me. Jog thats and old trick we did that in the 1950s I know know when that got started.
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Reply #177 - 01/31/11 at 10:40:22

Concerning the rear hub: Take your Drill and fasten it on a table or vise. Take a piece of allthread rod that fits through the bearings, if necessary make up the difference with Duct Tape to make it snug enough. Stick one end into the drill. Put a big washer by the chuck. Put the rear hub on and then another washer and a nut and tighten. Let the drill run at a slow comfortable speed, because of the circumference of the hub, the speed on the outside will be fast enough for sanding. Also this way not much noise and overheating of the Drill.

Just watch out for your fingers. Maybe wanna use some leather gloves. There seems to be a cast seem in the middle that runs axial, you can take that down with a file prior.

You could even get a stick of wood with sandpaper on top to get in the grooves.

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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: The project begins Reply #178 - 02/05/11 at 14:20:09 Front hub time. See photos above for what it looked like before. Casting info? What casting info? I need to go back and do some more work on the nooks and crannies of the rotor side
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: The project begins Reply #179 - 02/05/11 at 22:35:38 daang, thats sweet.
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