On Jan 15, 11:58am, Bob Lang wrote:
> Frankly, I'm a little nervous about heating the flange a lot,
Me too; I worry about loss of strength due to annealing the hub,
> But breaking an axle at speed is a thrill that I hope to never experience!
Been there, done that (almost; I sheared off the lug nuts) and
really don't want to do it again anytime soon.
> Of
> course, I'm not a metalurgist, so I have no idea if heating the flange is
> detrimental to the unit's strength...
I'm not either, but its enough to scare me. When I had to remove
the hubs on my TR-4, I just took them to a shop with a 50 ton
press and had them do it. Well worth the $10 or so that it cost.
John Lye
rjl6n@virginia.EDU
http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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