Polished hubs

Started by KJ790, Dec 13 2008 01:59 PM
24 replies to this topic

  • KJ790

Posted 13 December 2008 - 01:59 PM

#1


Well, I finally got around to building some wheels out of spare parts I had. I turned down the hubs and polished them up before I laced them and they came out looking great! They look better in person than in the pictures. Now I'm just waiting for the new bearings to come for the rear wheel.

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  • Gani_riders

Posted 13 December 2008 - 02:15 PM

#2

Looks sickk. have u been up to any more carbon fibre parts projects lately? I'm gonna try to get myself into making carbon parts but idont even know where to start

  • MotoMan40

Posted 13 December 2008 - 02:29 PM

#3

How did you polish the hubs?

  • bman_08

Posted 13 December 2008 - 02:35 PM

#4

yes please give us a how-to

  • KJ790

Posted 13 December 2008 - 02:39 PM

#5

Gani_riders said:

Looks sickk. have u been up to any more carbon fibre parts projects lately? I'm gonna try to get myself into making carbon parts but idont even know where to start

I've made some parts for my pitbike like a skidplate and some other parts, other than that, not too much. Sometime I'm gonna make a chain guide for my pitbike.

MotoMan40 said:

How did you polish the hubs?

I sanded them smooth using finer and finer sand paper. Once it was pretty smooth I used aluminum polish and an old t-shirt to polish them to a shine. It is time consuming and it is much easier if you have a lathe (my initial sanding was done on a lathe).

  • nch209

Posted 13 December 2008 - 03:30 PM

#6

Nice. What are these for? Did you have to cut any ribs out of the centers? (Like on Yamahas?)

Thanks!

  • hondacr250fan

Posted 13 December 2008 - 03:34 PM

#7

looking GOOD !

  • KJ790

Posted 13 December 2008 - 03:44 PM

#8

nch209 said:

Nice. What are these for? Did you have to cut any ribs out of the centers? (Like on Yamahas?)

Thanks!

These are for a yamaha, so yes I did have to grind down the casting marks and two ribs on the rear hub.

  • busted bones

Posted 13 December 2008 - 05:31 PM

#9

Gani_riders said:

Looks sickk. have u been up to any more carbon fibre parts projects lately? I'm gonna try to get myself into making carbon parts but idont even know where to start

I was wondering the same thing and am thinking of trying to find away to do a CF wrap on my hubs. To KJ those hus like sick man

  • KJ790

Posted 13 December 2008 - 07:10 PM

#10

busted bones said:

I was wondering the same thing and am thinking of trying to find away to do a CF wrap on my hubs. To KJ those hus like sick man

I did spend quite a bit of time trying to figure out a way of making a carbon fiber aluminum mix hub like Talon has. I figured out some ways that might work, but never bothered to try it. I don't want to waste a hub, as I'm sure I won't get it exactly right on my first try.

  • Dicko187

Posted 13 December 2008 - 08:28 PM

#11

so there's were standard Yami hubs??
That's ridiculously good!

I'm in the process of getting my rims anodised black and was thinking of buying a set of silver Talon hubs but I think I might give this a go instead.

Do you have to keep polishing the hubs after each ride/wash?

  • DaZa

Posted 14 December 2008 - 12:22 AM

#12

Those are some sick ass rims, good job!

  • fear this

Posted 14 December 2008 - 12:26 AM

#13

Very nice job!

  • KJ790

Posted 14 December 2008 - 08:30 AM

#14

Dicko187 said:

so there's were standard Yami hubs??
That's ridiculously good!

I'm in the process of getting my rims anodised black and was thinking of buying a set of silver Talon hubs but I think I might give this a go instead.

Do you have to keep polishing the hubs after each ride/wash?

Yup, those are just stock yamaha hubs. Ifyou don't coat them with anything then you will have to touch them up a bit once in a while, but it isn't hard to do.

  • CR85xpert

Posted 14 December 2008 - 08:52 AM

#15

yea, i might have to pay u to come over and do that to my oil/dirt stained hubs.

  • ThumperKid250F

Posted 14 December 2008 - 12:14 PM

#16

when you sand the ribs down does that weaking the hubs at all.. i have acess to a lathe so i could do this during the winter for my 250

  • 71_burton

Posted 14 December 2008 - 01:54 PM

#17

Nice!

  • GENE426

Posted 14 December 2008 - 01:59 PM

#18

Looks good

  • KJ790

Posted 14 December 2008 - 02:48 PM

#19

ThumperKid250F said:

when you sand the ribs down does that weaking the hubs at all.. i have acess to a lathe so i could do this during the winter for my 250

These hubs had no ribs on the front and two ribs on the back. These were just casting marks, so grinding them off doen't hurt anything. The pre 2001 front yamaha hubs, and some kawasaki and suzuki hubs I have seen have many large ribs, these may add strength to the hub, so I wouldn't recommend grinding them off.

  • ThumperKid250F

Posted 14 December 2008 - 03:23 PM

#20

KJ790 said:

These hubs had no ribs on the front and two ribs on the back. These were just casting marks, so grinding them off doen't hurt anything. The pre 2001 front yamaha hubs, and some kawasaki and suzuki hubs I have seen have many large ribs, these may add strength to the hub, so I wouldn't recommend grinding them off.

yea i looked at my rear wheels and dident see any ribs so i thought it was a older year hub..

nice work kj



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