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Joe d:
Hi Pete

Thanks for the kind words.

The end of the axle is drilled and tapped, once the wheel is on there is a washer slightly larger than the axle
diameter held on with a cap screw, all of which is hidden by the hub cap.

As to your second question, hard to tell in the photo but yes the shell extends a good 1/2" beyond the tube plate just for that reason.

Cheers, Joe

Joe d:
Well, started having at the nice bit of brass that came in last week.

Well hidden inside there are some rear-wheel hubs screaming to come out...

Set up in the mill to carve off some of the excess material

then mounted on the dividing head for a lot of passes to round it over, went with very small increments which leave me with next to
no clean up to do to remove the facets left by the indexing as they are really slight

changed to the other centre to mill the smaller radius

once that was done, still on the same centres started to mill out the inside of the hub. So far once around with an end cutting mill,
next will go around each side of this slot with a 1/8' ball nose cutter, taking off another 1/16' on each side bringing the slot to size,
and giving me a nice little radius at the root.

Once that's done, remount once again on the other centres, and finish off the slot milling.

However, that's for tomorrow, it's time :coffee:

Joe

Joe d:
Made some progress with the wheels.

Went around the material with the ball nose cutter to finish off the slots

Then a lot of back and forthing, in the 4 jaw in the lathe to face the end, in the bandsaw to cut off, back in the 4 jaw to reface, cut off, turn some spigots, cut off, etc etc, then faced the cut sides and end up here:

put the centre sections on the rotary table to mill the slots for the spokes

made up another jig to install the spokes

and here's one done ready for some rivets

Looks like a wheel now.

Cheers, Joe

Zadig:
They look lovely Joe, you'll be booking your steam test for the end of the month at this rate.

I was at a plant and machinery auction the other day and had you in mind for a long while. There was a construction book for the Minnie by L C Mason. I was tempted to bid for it for posterity, but things were going on elsewhere and I didn't get to see it go through - pity.

Joe d:
Thanks for that, Zadig. I do in fact have a copy of the book, worthwhile even if you weren't building one as an aide
in understanding the relationship of the various bits to each other.

Incidentally, have finished reading the 120+ pages of your project: all I can say is WOW. Looking forward to more,
so get busy :whip:

Cheers, Joe

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