Showing posts with label Superlace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superlace. Show all posts
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
For Sale: Superlace Hub
Minor bubble 2-3mm across - highlighted
Ping head bubbles, approx 4 of them (highlighted) 1mm across:
Small Ding on the inside of the hub: 5-6mm long 1-2mm wide
What looks to possible a minor ding. Very faint
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
What's in the box???
What's in the "small parts" box?
Not small parts, that's for sure...
NOS Superlace hubs galore!
Not small parts, that's for sure...
NOS Superlace hubs galore!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Replacing the Superlace cones
One other problem with the front Superlace hub, was that the original cones were cracked and of course without a donor hub it's impossible to get replacements. Thankfully for me, the low flange GT hubs have the same cones. But I difdnv't want to risk cracking those on removal so I figured the safest way to remove then was to cut them out.... how hard could it be???
Well it took a bit of butchering, but they came out in the end, but unfortunately the race hub will no longer race no more... call it a mercy kill.
The next step was to set them into the Superlace hub. I figured the process would be helped if I heated up the hub body and put the cones in the freezer. Simple thermodynamics... hot things expand, cold things shrink... All be it, ever so slightly but enough to get them in properly.
I also figured I could use one of the cracked cones to hammer the replacements in. So I grinded the old cone so that it wouldn't get stuck in the hub.
Then heated up the hub in boiling water and put the cones in iced water.
Next it was just a case of hammering the new cones in place using the old cone.
Job done, just a grease up and rebuild...
For Sale
Slightly used GT race lace hub. Sold as seen ;-)
Well it took a bit of butchering, but they came out in the end, but unfortunately the race hub will no longer race no more... call it a mercy kill.
The next step was to set them into the Superlace hub. I figured the process would be helped if I heated up the hub body and put the cones in the freezer. Simple thermodynamics... hot things expand, cold things shrink... All be it, ever so slightly but enough to get them in properly.
I also figured I could use one of the cracked cones to hammer the replacements in. So I grinded the old cone so that it wouldn't get stuck in the hub.
Then heated up the hub in boiling water and put the cones in iced water.
Next it was just a case of hammering the new cones in place using the old cone.
Job done, just a grease up and rebuild...
For Sale
Slightly used GT race lace hub. Sold as seen ;-)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Araya Aeros
The first set of Araya Aero I picked up, was to be honest, were in somewhat worse of a condition than described.
I guess some people don't understand the definition of a dent or ding. Anyway, one rim was scrap, and one was 5/10 at best. But the better rim I did manage to fix somewhat. A second set arrived today, and are still surivor condition, but are straight away a 7/10 and 5/10 (minor ding) before I even start with them. even cheaper than the first set too.
The minor ding came out quite easily with a rag and adjustable spanner to pull out the ding on the rim edge. The plan is to have the rims powder coated white and have the GT hubs laced to them. I'll have the three good rims powdered, so I can have two rear wheels built. One with the GT Coaster hub and the second with a GT Superlace rear hub I picked up recently (Still in the post).
Parts wise, I think I have everything and what's not home, is on its way in the post.
I guess some people don't understand the definition of a dent or ding. Anyway, one rim was scrap, and one was 5/10 at best. But the better rim I did manage to fix somewhat. A second set arrived today, and are still surivor condition, but are straight away a 7/10 and 5/10 (minor ding) before I even start with them. even cheaper than the first set too.
The minor ding came out quite easily with a rag and adjustable spanner to pull out the ding on the rim edge. The plan is to have the rims powder coated white and have the GT hubs laced to them. I'll have the three good rims powdered, so I can have two rear wheels built. One with the GT Coaster hub and the second with a GT Superlace rear hub I picked up recently (Still in the post).
Parts wise, I think I have everything and what's not home, is on its way in the post.
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