Following is a sequence of shots I took last night from the process -- reduce hub size to something more appropriate, drill and tap the hole circle to match the disks and then install said disk.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Can we stop this?
The first three hubs I'm modifying are for the braking system. We're using three mountain bike disk brakes mounted to these hubs. There will be two on the drive axle and the third will mount to the propeller shaft.
Following is a sequence of shots I took last night from the process -- reduce hub size to something more appropriate, drill and tap the hole circle to match the disks and then install said disk.
Following is a sequence of shots I took last night from the process -- reduce hub size to something more appropriate, drill and tap the hole circle to match the disks and then install said disk.