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December 2013

    hub bearing carrier

    December 29, 2013

    ok doke ,

    so stage one ,of the remote gearbox, was to make a hub bearing carrier( to mount the cv bearing ,flange, cv assembly to, then to bolt the flywheel/clutch to …phew…,)

    I was going to use the cast one , but ,as avid readers will know it turned out to be cast iron .

    so this bit of billet steel will do , you can see the cast thing I have to copy above ^^^not too complicated , so to start with , I centred the billet in the chuck ,and started to face it off ,and centre mark it . this stuff is tough !! not sure what it is but im guessing 32.

    next step is to get a drillin’ n’ a borin’ .(just practising my Texan oilman drawl.) 😉

  • Veronica’s mini distraction

    I have been taking time to work on a project for veronica , and when that’s at the stage I want I will be back on this , she feels terrible I am not…

    December 24, 2013