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Lathe help please… in or around Midlands?
yellowcab - 7/6/14 at 10:13 AM

Now where I come 'cap in hand' does anyone relatively local to me have a lathe… please? the hub centric wheel spacers I bought on a whim are marginally incorrect fit, in that the centre bore of the spacer is 56.1mm, the centre bore of the trailer axel is 56.6mm… so I need 0.5mm taking off the inner diameter… could anyone help out please?




Anyone handy?

designer - 7/6/14 at 10:42 AM

Go to a local machine shop. It will be cheap and you have the guarantee that if anything goes wrong, they correct it.

owelly - 7/6/14 at 11:47 AM

Fit a wire brush attachment to your drill or grinder and spin the drum up to speed and then polish the spigot to size with a file and/or emery paper. If you're steady enough with the grinder, you could start the hub spining and then used the grinding disc on the spigot to keep it spinning and tickle the metal off.....

Wadders - 7/6/14 at 01:54 PM

Hub centric spacers on a trailer.....now theres a first, most trailer wheels don't even run on the centre bore they just pick up on the studs, are you changing p.c.d or something ?

yellowcab - 7/6/14 at 03:30 PM

LOL I needed to make my trailer wider to accommodate Spire...


So 30mm per wheel gives me the 60mm track width extra I needed... And the cheapest solution lol

ashg - 7/6/14 at 06:07 PM

if your really stuck you could post them to me down in kent

owelly - 7/6/14 at 06:16 PM

As I posted up there ^, you're talking about less than half a mm. So just polish it off the spigots. It's less than a 1/4mm off all round!!

Wadders - 7/6/14 at 06:55 PM

Ah now i get it

If you need a quick fix i'd do what Owelly suggests or similar, as the concentricity bit don't matter so much on a trailer.

Never been able to get my head round the fact that trailer wheels don't pick up on the centre spigot and just rely on the studs for alignment, but there you go.




Originally posted by yellowcab
LOL I needed to make my trailer wider to accommodate Spire...


So 30mm per wheel gives me the 60mm track width extra I needed... And the cheapest solution lol

yellowcab - 7/6/14 at 07:24 PM

Yeah I hear ya... And as they're hubcentric there bolted centrally too

rdodger - 7/6/14 at 07:58 PM

Put them in the oven at gas mark 6 for 10 mins and then tap them on?

yellowcab - 7/6/14 at 08:00 PM

Another good idea!

40inches - 7/6/14 at 08:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by rdodger
Put them in the oven at gas mark 6 for 10 mins and then tap them on?

And put the hubs in the freezer Just don't expect to get them apart

yellowcab - 7/6/14 at 08:53 PM

Nat @ RetroPower to the rescue, gonna take them out to 56.7mm for me

40inches - 7/6/14 at 08:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by yellowcab
Nat @ RetroPower to the rescue, gonna take them out to 56.7mm for me


Would have been more interesting to put the hubs in the freezer