Anti-Scalp Roller Mod's?

[PineRidge]

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<font color="blue"> I can't let my wife see your post. She'd drive down to your place and do terrible things to your being!!
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My wife is the same way. If she sees it breathe she won't eat it. We stopped by the neighbors a month or two back because she saw a sign fresh chicken & duck eggs. You guessed it, it was weeks before she would cook eggs again cause see saw they were real live creatures laying them. She never thought about it before that. Cows are out, I'm not turning into a vegetarian. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Junkman]

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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( .......... stopped by the neighbors a month or two back because she saw a sign fresh chicken & duck eggs. You guessed it, it was weeks before she would cook eggs again cause see saw they were real live creatures laying them. She never thought about it before that. Cows are out, I'm not turning into a vegetarian. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Where did she think eggs came from?????? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Don't ever show her an eggplant and a chicken near by.... she might faint!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[PineRidge]

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Junkman she was born a city girl, and as such never gave much thought to where the food that we eat actually came from. Certainly she connects chickens to eggs but heaven help me if I was to slaughter one for a roasted chicken dinner.

She is a loving person and would not intentionally harm any living thing. This puts me at a quandary at times. Especially if I have to do battle with the varmints. Normally I will send her on an errand before I dig out the 9mm Smith & Wesson /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[RET]

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Got back from Disney last night....Thank God!
Couldn't wait to get to to the shop this morning to spend some Q time with me, myself and I.
Looks like Moweraxle has been on the ball and has a good solution.
I finished one wheel of my version of the solution this morning.
This attachment is the wheel as it arrived from Castercity.com. Hat bushings are for a 3/4" axle. After finding it impossible to find off-the-shelf 3/4" axles that would step down to the OEM threads, I decided to go with the OEM axle, so I ordered more parts.
See folowing posts.

 

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woops. pic did not attach.

 

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I ordered 1" by 3/4" sleeve bushings from McMaster.com.
Surprise....when I removed the original hat bushings from the
wheels this morning, I found out the the ID of the wheels is actually something like 1 3/16".
So, to get creative, I decided to use the hat bushings and sleeves together. To make them fit, I bored out the hat bushings from the original 3/4" to 7/8" (largest bit I had) on my drill press. Then, I mounted the sleeve bushing on my drill press and sanded the OD from original of 1" down to 7/8". ALso, I mounted a new OEM axle on the press and ground/sanded the axle OD down to 5/8" (removed ~0.004" according to moweraxle's SAE/metric conversions).
Attached is a pic of this step of the process completed.
Note that I have already drilled a hole in the sleeve bearing for greasing later. I bored all the way through so there are 2 holes. Note that there will be a hollow space between the hat bushings that will be full of grease at all times.

 

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Here's a pic of the completed wheel, including grease fitting.
There's a 1/16" washer bushing on one side and a 1/8" washer on the other. I had to grind/polish the 1/8" washer down to ~3/32" to get a good fit. There is only a TINY side to side looseness to this assembly and the wheel turns freely. I wanted minimal play in hopes that will help keep dirt out.

 

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Another view .

 

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last view

 

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Forgot to mention another thing....the hat bushings are VERY snuggly friction-fitted to the spanner bushing (think hammer and 2X4). There is no movement between those bushings.

Obviously, this is a 'make do with what you've got' solution since I had already bought bunches of parts and did not want to go order more.

This solution will work great if we do one of 2 things below:
1) Find hat bushings that will reduce from the ~1-3/16' ID wheel to the OEM 16mm diameter. Then, installation would be a 10 minute job.
2) Talk Moweraxle into machining new axles with 3/4" axle dia. and OEM threads for attachment to the column. Actually, the threaded end could be made slightly larger, requiring only some minor boring of the columns. I think this would be the best of the best solutions. Then, we would have a vastly superior wheel, larger (stronger, more wear resistant) axle, and minimal work to install.
Moweraxle, got time to machine me some axles if I provide some dimensions?
roger
comments?