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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 08:18 AM Reply With Quote
Drilling wheel PCD’s, by hand (Drilling the Hub flange not the wheels)

I’ve got some wheels that basically don’t fit the car I want to put them on cos the PCD is totally different. I have however Autocad and was thinking I could print off a very accurate template I could glue go over the flanges which would give me the exact location of the new holes. I was then going to center punch the marks and progressively drill out the wholes to the right size using my cool heap of new drills

Dead easy, what could possibly go wrong…??

[Edited on 14/9/09 by Mr Whippy]





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dinosaurjuice

posted on 14/9/09 at 08:23 AM Reply With Quote
i re-drilled my cortina hubs to 5 bolt (same PCD). just used a lathe to scribe a circle the correct pcd, some clever maths to work out distance between each stud and a pillar drill.

done 1400miles with no wobble or shakes

i drilled a 4.5mm pilot hole then went straight through with the 12mm. worked a treat.

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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 08:34 AM Reply With Quote
hmm unfortunately the only lathe I have is a wood turning one but I'm sure the cad drawing is more than accurate enough, I think





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posted on 14/9/09 at 08:43 AM Reply With Quote
hmmmm, I wonder how much a wheel has to be out for there to be any noticeable effect?

the lathe method is a good 'un but if you don't have one, rig up a scriber to touch the hub whilst it is on the car and turn the hub to get the circle. then see how you paper template compares. I guess if the differnece is less than 0.5 mm, then go ahead and drill.


]^^^^ you are drilling, the wheels, not the hub so dunno how you can scribe an accurate circle on them.



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Originally posted by Herr Vipmeister I'm sure the cad drawing is more than accurate enough, I think


You sure? CAD drawings are just drawings from which one takes dimensions to make a part, not for use as paper templates?

I know our photo copier at work copies so that the horizontal distance is slightly different to the vertical difference.

For a word document, that meerkats no difference but does for making a PCB and having the holes on a 0.1 inch matrix, it does .

I suspect printing will have this issue - if you do go the template route, put some test marks a big distance apart and measure accurately.

[Edited on 14/9/09 by 02GF74]

[Edited on 14/9/09 by 02GF74]






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twybrow

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:02 AM Reply With Quote
^ wot he said - unless you have access to an expensive plotter, which is regularly checked for calibration, then I would add some sort of refernce X and Y dimension lines to check when you print....
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Humbug

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:05 AM Reply With Quote
Yes.. I think the main issue would be centring the template

Good luck

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Humbug

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:07 AM Reply With Quote
...or, deliberately do the circle off-centre and make some extra money as a clown
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Bluemoon

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:12 AM Reply With Quote
I think if you double check you print out (i.e make a standard length say 10cm and check this with a ditgital caliper) you should get the hole positions o.k. after center punching. I would not do any of thus unless they are hub centric, if they are I guess a little error is probably not going to be a problem if not it's going to be a real issue....

I would not dill by hand though I would use a pillar drill and sort some way of clamping the wheel; you want vertical holes! Other wise the hole will probably drift as you go up in drill sizes... Hopefully your pillar drill has enough reach! If so I would camp every thing to the bench (nice and flat hopefully) and swing the drill head to allow clearance from the base (i.e. 180 degree from where is should be).. You also want to use some kind of coolant (paraffin?) when drilling..

Thats how I would try; your risk though might not work

Also you might gave to countersink the holes with the correct tapper (assuming ali wheels..) in which case I don;t know what you would do! In addition you need to be sure there is enough metal to do all this without weakening the wheel... Maybe it's a bad idea

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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:15 AM Reply With Quote
You’re probably right about the dimensions on a printout often being slightly wrong. Though I can very easily dimensionally check the drawing with a pair of compasses

Actually just printed 2 of the drawings now putting on at 90 degs to the other and holding them up to the light. Looks spot on Might be onto a winner here

Oh each hub has a machined center and I've just been given a compass with a knife blade instead of a bit of lead to cut the center out, good old dafty’s sitting next to me I give myself a 100% chance of stabbing myself with this thing Also now using photo paper as thats stiffer

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alistairolsen

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:41 AM Reply With Quote
Youll need to get steel inserts for the cones, and Id be using misalignment or "wobble" bolts to allow for any small margin of error.





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posted on 14/9/09 at 09:42 AM Reply With Quote
eek, i wouldn't





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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 09:46 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by alistairolsen
Youll need to get steel inserts for the cones, and Id be using misalignment or "wobble" bolts to allow for any small margin of error.


cones? I was using standard ford splined studs that are pressed in from behind the flange and normal alloy wheel bolts





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posted on 14/9/09 at 09:50 AM Reply With Quote
just for fun i printed out a pitch circle 1:1 on 4 different printers and they were up to 5mm out from biggest to smallest.

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alistairolsen

posted on 14/9/09 at 10:07 AM Reply With Quote
ok, on the nuts then. There are usually steel cones in the wheels to prevent the steel nut/bolt picking up the alloy material.





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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 10:13 AM Reply With Quote
cheers, looks like we have a good one here, I checked the drawings and their spot on dimensionally, at least to 0.5mm which is more than I'm bothered about. Pity it takes so long to warm up

I'll post some pictures once I've drilled them and show the amount of run out if any I end up with. If it all goes t$ts up I can just revert to using the original holes

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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 10:17 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by alistairolsen
ok, on the nuts then. There are usually steel cones in the wheels to prevent the steel nut/bolt picking up the alloy material.


Oh that’s fine, if there's inserts then they'll already be in the wheels anyway. These wheels use the very narrow wheel nuts rather than the two piece cone type





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James

posted on 14/9/09 at 10:35 AM Reply With Quote
I would have thought it really wouldn't be too hard to get an engineering firm to drill them for you for not much money.

They can use their CNC mill to set datum points and from that get the holes really accurately placed and drilled. Can't cost that much- I'll DIY most things but this seems a good way to die!

Would it not be easier to drill the hubs to match the wheel than drill the wheels?

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posted on 14/9/09 at 11:12 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
cheers, looks like we have a good one here, I checked the drawings and their spot on dimensionally, at least to 0.5mm which is more than I'm bothered about. Pity it takes so long to warm up

I'll post some pictures once I've drilled them and show the amount of run out if any I end up with. If it all goes t$ts up I can just revert to using the original holes

[Edited on 14/9/09 by Mr Whippy]


If it all goes t$ts up and you are going to use the original holes, why do it in the first place.

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Mr Whippy

posted on 14/9/09 at 11:13 AM Reply With Quote
Ah ha I see I have not made that post very clear...my fault

No I'm drilling the hub flange not the wheel, yeah I put wheel PCD's in the title but I was just referring to their PCD's. Now some folks posts are making more sense, oh boy...don’t you just love forums

I have other wheels that fit the current PCD but their not what I want on the car

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02GF74

posted on 14/9/09 at 11:14 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
quote:
Originally posted by alistairolsen
Youll need to get steel inserts for the cones, and Id be using misalignment or "wobble" bolts to allow for any small margin of error.


cones? I was using standard ford splined studs that are pressed in from behind the flange and normal alloy wheel bolts


Is not drilling the hub then pressing in the studs the better option? (I thought that is what you were goona do as opposed to putting extra holes in the wheel)






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MikeRJ

posted on 14/9/09 at 11:20 AM Reply With Quote
As long as the wheel is hub-centric i.e. locates on the middle of the hub rather than the bolts/studs, then you could get away with a small amount of misalignment.
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stevebubs

posted on 14/9/09 at 11:40 AM Reply With Quote
If the lathe is wood turning, could you still not use it to mark it out? Surely the best "tool" would be something like a pencil...probably don't even need to turn the power on....
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Mal

posted on 14/9/09 at 03:34 PM Reply With Quote
Drillin Jig

Make an Autocad drawing of the stud holes and small clearance on the central locaton diameter of the hub, send the file to your local laser cutting company and get them to cut you a disc in 8 or 10mm plate to use as a drilling jig.
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Liam

posted on 14/9/09 at 05:43 PM Reply With Quote
There's an option somewhere on Autocad to calibrate your plotter/printer, though sounds like your setup isn't too far out as it is. Even with an accurate template, though, you can only hope to achieve 1-2mm accuracy centre punching and drilling by hand. Especially if your heap of new drills was made in China and cost nowt . So definately use wobble bolts if you want the wheels to stay on.

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nz_climber

posted on 14/9/09 at 11:16 PM Reply With Quote
Would be alot easier to take them to an engineering company to get them drilled, as you can't drill them on the car anyway, that way they'll get them in the exact spot. Each time you take transfer a measurement, (from computer to printer, printer to metal) you'll be introducing more errors.





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