Here is a thing
. I have a pair of spindles for tin hub wheels which I am restoring; photo attached. They are off a Greeves, with plenty of Moorland Blue still existing on the hubs. The spindles appear to be dimensionally accurate, but are different in one respect; have you spotted it?
Instead of having flats machined part way along the outer threaded sections, in order to fit the forks & swinging arm, the spindles have been turned down all around, with the threaded section extending a little further than the spindles with the flats. All other Greeves wheels I own, or have seen, have flats. Being machined all round would speed up a wheel change, I guess, although it would allow the spindle to turn in the event of, say, a bearing, or speedo drive, locking up. Having said that, in that event the wheel is likely to lock up anyway; ask me how I know
Has anyone encountered these, and have an explanation?
Answers on a postcard etc.....
Ian
. I have a pair of spindles for tin hub wheels which I am restoring; photo attached. They are off a Greeves, with plenty of Moorland Blue still existing on the hubs. The spindles appear to be dimensionally accurate, but are different in one respect; have you spotted it? Instead of having flats machined part way along the outer threaded sections, in order to fit the forks & swinging arm, the spindles have been turned down all around, with the threaded section extending a little further than the spindles with the flats. All other Greeves wheels I own, or have seen, have flats. Being machined all round would speed up a wheel change, I guess, although it would allow the spindle to turn in the event of, say, a bearing, or speedo drive, locking up. Having said that, in that event the wheel is likely to lock up anyway; ask me how I knowHas anyone encountered these, and have an explanation?
Answers on a postcard etc.....
Ian
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