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Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:53 pm
by barryh
My Oct 78 build snowflakes have the steel inserts.
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:03 pm
by ME 109
barryh wrote:My Oct 78 build snowflakes have the steel inserts.
My September 81 flakes don't.
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:41 pm
by 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
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:51 pm
by Ken in Oklahoma
ME 109 wrote:barryh wrote: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
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:08 pm
by ME 109
Ken in Oklahoma wrote:
ME 109, I wonder if your flakes could have a thin layer of the aluminum casting hiding the steel
No Ken.
Ugly, innit!
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:12 pm
by Duane Ausherman
ME 109, what is that brown stuff at the back end?
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:27 am
by ME 109
Duane Ausherman wrote: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.
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:06 am
by 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.
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:30 pm
by Jean
For a minute I thought we had a rare case of aluminum rust!!
Re: How the heck do you remove the bearing from a R100R whee
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:42 pm
by ME 109
Duane Ausherman wrote:ME 109, what is that brown stuff at the back end?
It could have been worse I spose.
Duane
could have said rear end.