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Title: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: Swivel on January 17, 2011, 04:46 PM: Guys hi. I'm desperate to complete my 85 master but recently I bought a tuff from someone that put it in neat bleach without any grease protection and the alloy hubs are fooked :'( Totally shot with no way of polishing them up to save them.

I have another cracked tuff which has nice hubs, so I want to remove them and get them on to this one. Now what is the best way of removing these rivets? And can anyone do this for me? I know I need to get the right bolts which could be tricky to track down also, does anyone know the best place to get these and are there any about which doesn't have that X screw for the other end of the bolt? I'd prefer bolts either end, but ideally not the screw looking ones. This was the last thing I wanted to do but the hubs just cannot be saved :'(

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Matt :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: stfc on January 17, 2011, 04:52 PM: WHAT HAVE YOU TRIED ON THE HUBS REGARDING POLISHING?? oops caps on .. ???
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: MartyC on January 17, 2011, 04:54 PM: THe hardest thing is to find a similar rivet or a machine shop/engineer that can re-revit them for you. Post up some pics of the hub as it may well be salvageble :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: Swivel on January 17, 2011, 05:00 PM: Demmel to cut them right back as its pitted to hell :'( looks like the surface of the moon :shocked:

(http://www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/moon_99_02_23_south.jpg)
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: Swivel on January 17, 2011, 06:18 PM: I'll take some pics tomorrow when its light ;)
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: oldtired on January 17, 2011, 06:46 PM: skyway replacement hubs had a philips pan head bolt with them i seem to remember ? so it would look just like a swapped hub , from bitd, reason being is to allow as much room as possible on the cog side. if the bolt head is to big you'll turn it into a fixie when you bung the chain on :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: dordymush on January 18, 2011, 10:53 AM: you could buy the nuts and bolts from b & q for the hubs.i got some from there myself in the past.
have a word with jay how he done his blue hubbed tuffs and im sure rombloke dave had an idea with the rivots a while back.
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: CD17 on January 18, 2011, 05:36 PM: Matt do not remove the rivets, call me & I will tell you how to do it 8)
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: Swivel on January 18, 2011, 07:39 PM: Quote from: wish id kept my TA on January 18, 2011, 05:36 PM
Matt do not remove the rivets, call me & I will tell you how to do it 8)

I'll do that chris mate, thanks :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Tuff Wheel help!
Post by: oldtired on January 18, 2011, 10:39 PM: Quote from: wish id kept my TA on January 18, 2011, 05:36 PM
Matt do not remove the rivets, call me & I will tell you how to do it 8)

+1 on that, arn't they a bit fatter on one side , because of the way they are made, i think if you pull em through the wrong way it will crack the wheel , might be wrong though?