How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R wheel

[barryh]

My Oct 78 build snowflakes have the steel inserts.

[ME 109]

My Oct 78 build snowflakes have the steel inserts.

My September 81 flakes don't.

[Dan in IL]

Duane I really don’t know where you get your information from? Over the years I’ve replaced many roller bearings from aluminum housings without using heat. A recent one was in a self-cleaning oil filter on a 3000 horsepower diesel. I can’t remember ever tearing one up. Most of the time they’re just barely less than slip fit. I don’t know why, I don’t design them, I just fix them

[Ken in Oklahoma]

My Oct 78 build snowflakes have the steel inserts.

My September 81 flakes don't.

ME 109, I wonder if your flakes could have a thin layer of the aluminum casting hiding the steel, kind of like I talked about on my R/H side of the front wheel on my '78 R100S. If that "flaked bondo like" coating had been integral, then I wouldn't have seen parts of the darker oxidized steel insert, or so it would seem.

I don't really "need" for the snowflakes to have the steel insert or not. Or like the Oklahoma locals say, "I don't have a dog in this fight".

Ken

[ME 109]

ME 109, I wonder if your flakes could have a thin layer of the aluminum casting hiding the steel

No Ken.

Ugly, innit!

[Duane Ausherman]

ME 109, what is that brown stuff at the back end?

[ME 109]

ME 109, what is that brown stuff at the back end?

That brown stuff? Why that's just rust from the metal insert in my sept 81 flake.

Gotta go, someone's at the front door.

[ME 109]

Well I'm a monkeys........ metal worker and all...

I've never put a magnet near my old rear flake. I did today after Duane's prompt.
Son of a..........it is impossible to see any join between the sleeve and ally hub. The colours are identical.

The new/second hand rear flake that I got off German ebay recently, has a sleeve that is most clearly visible.

I was beginning to think I was special too.

[Jean]

For a minute I thought we had a rare case of aluminum rust!!

[ME 109]

ME 109, what is that brown stuff at the back end?

It could have been worse I spose.
Duane could have said rear end.