yellowcab
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 10:13 AM |
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Lathe help please… in or around Midlands?
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?
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designer
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 10:42 AM |
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Go to a local machine shop. It will be cheap and you have the guarantee that if anything goes wrong, they correct it.
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owelly
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 11:47 AM |
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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.....
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Wadders
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 01:54 PM |
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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 ?
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yellowcab
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 03:30 PM |
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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
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ashg
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 06:07 PM |
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if your really stuck you could post them to me down in kent
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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owelly
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 06:16 PM |
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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!!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Wadders
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 06:55 PM |
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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
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yellowcab
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 07:24 PM |
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Yeah I hear ya... And as they're hubcentric there bolted centrally too
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rdodger
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 07:58 PM |
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Put them in the oven at gas mark 6 for 10 mins and then tap them on?
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yellowcab
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 08:00 PM |
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Another good idea!
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40inches
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 08:49 PM |
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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
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yellowcab
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 08:53 PM |
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Nat @ RetroPower to the rescue, gonna take them out to 56.7mm for me 
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40inches
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| posted on 7/6/14 at 08:55 PM |
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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
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