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Gents, I realize we are long overdue for an update.
Well, I have been busy with life but have managed to get all the stuff needed to set the bearing seats into the wheel.

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Tukerman welcome - but we need higher resolution photos of your project Laughing

Received the disc spacers today.
They look great! Happy about the chamfers I managed to get added last minute before machine shop swung into action.
Bolt pattern for the discs was spot on. Had to c ...

I'm still amazed by your work Steff !

Thank you Atomibart! Wink

I am really loving the new 3d printer. Amazing how quick it is to do design revisions and see the result.

It really makes a ...

Having an all new and capable 3d printer and just waiting for the CNC shop to finish the next couple parts I decided to print the parts and do a test fit.

Since the parts are just plastic I could s ...

It was new machine day (and home office) today!

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I had finally gotten enough of my little crappy 3d printer and had decided to get a better one while taking advan ...

Okay first the good news!

The outer hub parts arrived today and snapped into position with a satisfying *clack* Cool

The lip from the wheel goes into the grooves on the CNC parts and it looks pre ...

Just a quick update.
I have been wondering how to get the outer hub (the parts that seats the bearings and mounts the brake discs) made in such a way that has it has maximum strength to connect to t ...

After receiving the front wheel back from the machine shop in January I was quite surprised at how they had managed to botch the job.

Part of me wanted to get the tools myself and another part sai ...

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In my previous post I was trying to get my rather compact inner hub placed inside the wheel. The inner hub was originally intended to go inside something like the Aprilia Shiver wheel.

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In my post-mortem of today's events I am coming to the conclusion that the machine shop must have measured from the surfaces where the brake discs were originally mounted and simply planed off a certa ...

The machine shop finally finished the work and I picked up my wheel today.

I suppose my briefing and Fusion 360 drawing was not enough to make sense of because despite my best efforts to say that t ...

Just a quick update as I have practically done nothing for a month other than wait ...

Still waiting for the machine shop to finish the wheel. Have been after them a couple of times to hear when I ...

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