Kandy

[spidr]

Derek has been flooding me with pics, so I may as well post a few.
Lower tree is done and hes on to the upper. Came out better than I expected........

[spidr]

My daugher came up, and hung out for the day and sanded the tank. Looks awesome. And then we did a final pressure test, and she grabbed the blow gun and instead of the little blast I had been giving it, she held it wide open, and gave it 100psi. She looks happy because she doesnt know that she blew out half the seams........All good though. Had a ton of fun with her. And she works cheap.

[nuklhd]

her look of satisfaction over the tank and helping dad far out weigh the open seams huh?

[spidr]

Any day of the week, twice on the weekends.

[klondikekid64]

Your a lucky man spidr. Keep posting, it's the one thing I do every day for sure is check your build progress, looks awsome.

[spidr]

Thanks klondikekid64. Stoked guys are enjoying this.

Derek sent me some pics tonight of another piece to the puzzle......I was taking a mental health day, and havent done anything, but he was busting ass again. That big block of billet is going to be a star hub to mate to a juice drum.
He says it hasnt been done before, but he wanted to try, and I'm stoked to be the guinea pig. This is gonna be good.

[nuklhd]

spidr, i'm a little cornfused on the hub. is he machining an adapter of some sort. my drum bolted right up to my star hub.

[spidr]

Complete replacement hub.

[spidr]

More pics. Starting to look like something.

[spidr]

This is what hes matching, robbed a couple pics from his instagram, but thats his hub, and then mated up to a Visonary Cycle products(I beleive) rim. Basically the same setup hes doing for me. Should make for a very nice pair.

[nuklhd]

the drum you have pictured will bolt to that hub? the complete wheel looks like a front wheel and that brake pic is for the rear. sorry for the confusion. you have enough to do without answering dumb questions.lol

[spidr]

The last 2 pics are of front wheels. He's building me one like that for the front.
The new hub being machined will bolt to the drum, and it will match the front.

[spidr]

Afternoon machining porn update........Drum side of the hub done.

[spidr]

My evening update from Derek........I never can get enough of freshly machined pics........

The non drum side is done. Drive side has dowel holes, and through holes, drive side is a nice tight fit to the bolt head in the counterbore.
Since the drum bolts are an oddball 20tpi bolt, he cutting down the longer bolts to the shank, rethreading them to 20tpi, and I believe there was a mention of tapered heads to help locate, but this is his game not mine...
Said he has to cut a taper to the mounting face since the drum face is not flat, and he'll clean up and taper the spoke flange and cut the contour in the middle to match the front hub.
Its also getting a stainless insert for the bearings, so they're no pressed straight into the aluminum

[nuklhd]

i'm getting it now spider thanks. interesting. can't wait to see the finished product.