[modeleng] Re: Steel Wheels
- From: cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:48:11 +0000
Be sure your assembly arrangement allows time to get the tyres/tires on and
lined up before the temperature difference is gone. It might be well to leave
the exteriors of the tires enough oversize to allow truing cuts once everything
has been assembled. Some might even suggest that the final truing take place
between centers with the tires on the wheels and the wheels on the axles. And,
you might want to match each tire to a specific wheel center as you turn the
sets. Am I reading correctly that you will have wheel centers of a nominal 8"
diameter and an interfereance fit of 0.008 inches? Charles
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> I have just acquired, at great expense, a piece of steel tube 8" I.D. and
> 3/4ins. wall thickness. I am about to start machining it to produce six steel
> tyres which I intend to shrink onto three pairs of existing, cast iron wheel
> sets (after machining off the current treads). The plan is to make the tyres
> with one thou per inch of interference, expand them with heat then shrink
> them
> onto the wheels.
> Before I pluck up courage to do this job does anyone have any advice to
> offer?
>
> Barrie
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