Sanding/Filling Aluminium

Notorious MCSE

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« on: July 23, 2007, 02:35:35 PM »

Hello Dads,

I have a problem.

I have a new rear hub that I paid a lot of mullaah for on the cost, then the shipping from Japan, then the cocking import tax was nearly 50% of the value.

Then I hit upon a problem. The hubs axel is too fat to fit in the dropouts of the aluminum framed bike. Im thinking it can be sanded out - but what kind of sandpaper is required?


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yawner

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Re: Sanding/Filling Aluminium

« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2007, 05:24:04 PM »

are you thinking of this stuff


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chavalier

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Re: Sanding/Filling Aluminium

« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2007, 05:30:02 PM »

he wants a swine file, a vice and a big screw off hammer or maybe an angle grinder


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Notorious MCSE

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Re: Sanding/Filling Aluminium

« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2007, 12:47:44 PM »

I got tired of sanding it biggrin

also with sanding it was going around in an oval rather than a required circle.

Took it to an old engineer who fixed welded up an old frame for me and he went at it with a file that I didnt have.

He sorted it out for a quid twenty.

Top man he is.


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Chris H

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Re: Sanding/Filling Aluminium

« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2007, 01:05:56 PM »

Turn it on a lathe and polish machine marks out. Else risk of fatigue


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Re: Sanding/Filling Aluminium

« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2007, 01:09:27 PM »

Quote from: Chris H on July 24, 2007, 01:05:56 PM

Turn it on a lathe and polish machine marks out. Else risk of fatigue

He filed it out, it was a tiny tiny amount, maybe 2.5mm either side of the drop outs. I doubt it will affect structural integrity, and if it does, ill just reverse the polarity and drive all power to the shields.

Thanks.