Wheel building

[guest27]

Having too much time and not enough energy I end up planning interesting excursions into the outer reaches of sensibilities - like building a thunderbox toilet around a modern close coupled dunny - complete with arm rests etc....

Never built a wheel before but would like a 21" front on the K4 - oh in association with a T500 front hub, may as well bin it in style.  Looking in the press to get this done is going to cost me a couple of hundred quid, for a whim.  Unfortunatly, I asked Mr Blair if I could have some more IB/DLA to pay for whims and he said no, so I may have to have a go myself.  Anyone built their owhn wheels, and if so was it as tricky as it looks it would be?

R

[themoudie]

Aye Rog,

Rebuilt the Duke wheels with care and patience! I suspect with your desire for the unique mixture of components, the drilling, dimpling of the rim and spoke lengths will be a 'one off' job rather than my 'standard' bits number.

If you still fancy giving it a go then I could try and dig out an article or two.

Central Wheels or Hagons are two commercial outfits you might enquire of the cost. Ask at your local racing or classic club, who does the wheels for them? You might be surprised!

Regards, Bill

[guest27]

Thanks Bill

When I lived in Milton Keynes I knew an old boy who did wheels and did a great job, have not got similar knowledge here - there must be someone mind.  Ditto getting heads welded etc - In MK just took them to Mez Porting - what a lovely old boy, guess he is not one of us now? He used to have such an array of exotic heads etc in his 'garden shed', I guess the various people knew he was doing other peoples heads for them....  (Read Factory team WSB heads etc) and my Triumph head having its exhaust ports welded and the barrels being repaired.

If you have some info I would be interested in reading / looking.

R

[themoudie]

Aye Rog,

Will look out the articles for you.

Mez porting still on the go, so far as I am aware and makes a very nice job of Duke single heads. Baines Bros of Silverstone put a lot of Duke stuff his way as well. My old 450 was done by him in the mid 70's and still looks and performs well. Rebuild ongoing. URL below if anybody wants a good job. 'The Blaggared' may be up against his work in some serious Rotax 650 motors!

http://www.btinternet.com/~mezporting/index.html#

Regards, Bill

[themoudie]

I must apologies to everyone for misleading information about Mez porting. I couldn't get my URL to work and found the following:

http://www.mezporting.com/

Were the death of the owner is detailed. My condolences to the family and sincere apologies for not having checked, before writing my last message.

Bill.

[guest27]

That is sad, he was a good bloke, though has to be admitted he could give Terry Hobbs (for those of you who ever met TH) a run for inclusion of "bloody" in a conversation.  But like TH - you did not notice.

R