Well, quite a while ago, probably a couple years ago now, I got a set of wheels in with a set of
axles to take apart and kind of diagnose what the problem was. And if you remember back, I did
do a video on that set of wheels and they needed rebuilding and they don't really fit
the axles well. So, I didn't have time to rebuild those wheels and I was going to send them home.
Well, as the kind of things transpire, they never did go home and they sat here, kind
of in the back corner. Well I'm still in the middle of doing this mud wagon rebuild, so
I thought maybe I could throw these wheels in as part of my after work schedule. You know I'm
really not taking in a lot of wheels anymore, but maybe this might fit in this category to
where I can still keep this mud wagon project going forward. So anyway, I dug these axles out
this week and in order to get the good measurement to see how they fit, I need
to get all this old grimy grease cleaned off of them so I can get an accurate measurement.
Well, these are the four hubs that came off of these two axles that I took the wheels off of.
These two here, on the left, are the rear wheels, and these two are the front wheels. And there are
two different sizes axles on this wagon. The front axle on this wagon is a two inch and the rear axle
is a two and a quarter. So we have two different spindle diameters and spindle lengths as well.
One of these front hubs actually fits pretty well on this front axle.
This is the only hub that really fits pretty well at all. Neither one of the hubs for the
rear axles fit well at all. They're really sloppy up against the collar, even though up against the
nut they seem to be a little tighter. So the taper is all wrong in these boxings.
Well this is the other front core. It's been replaced at some time, but the boxing doesn't
fit well up against the collar, so I'm going to push this boxing out so I can clean it up.
This second here in the lineup is a rear hub core, and you can see where
it is split pretty well. It needs to be replaced. And this is the second rear
hub core. It's not in quite so bad of shape, but because the boxing doesn't fit well
either, I would like to push it out and get a good measurement on it after I clean it up.
So these are the hub cores after I've pushed the boxings out. I did run them through the
sandblaster after I washed them in a solvent. This last hub, it had some material that was
pushed into it. Not real uncommon, so not a really big deal. This one, with a big crack in it, it has
a lot of canvas that has been pushed into it, so it didn't fit really well, or perhaps it spun some
time in its life. But this one definitely needed to be replaced. This boxing goes with that core,
and this other front core, this is the boxing that came out of it, and I'll show you it's not quite as
bad as the rear axle, but it also has some play on the large end of the boxing up against the collar.
See the play that it has up against the collar, up against the nut is not quite so bad. It has
a little play, but none of these boxings are super tight. You know, even the new boxings, they tell
me, they make about ten thousandths over just to allow for some grease. This has got some time on it,
so this one isn't real bad. The worst case scenario, it would probably work okay.
I did find another set of boxings that I had off of an old two inch axle as well, and these
boxings actually fit a little better as a good replacement for this boxing for the front axle.
So this has far less play than the other boxing did. That'll make a good replacement
and make a good pair for this front axle. So it's a little bit different in style,
but the thing that's going to affect this core, this boxing that fits better is a little bit
smaller, by an eighth of an inch on the OD, than this boxing that came out of that hub.
So in order for me to use this boxing to replace this one, I'm going to have to make that core also.
Well, I got interrupted in my hub turning project. I had a fella drop by a swing tongue
that got broken. I need to replace this. He needs to be up and operating tomorrow morning,
so I'm gonna take this apart, put a new wood blank in
this for the swing tongue, and I'll set these hubs aside for right now.
This will get him back on the road and they should be up and shooting their movie again
tomorrow. I did make an extra tongue blank. Just in case if they have something that happens,
it won't be quite such an emergency. They can just transfer this iron from one to the next.
So much for the best laid plans of mice and men. Bound to be interrupted sooner or later.
Appreciate you following along. Thanks for watching!