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Fabricating dust covers?
datakoll aka gene daniels wrote:
moooo? http://cheesebyhand.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/holstein_jersey.jpg -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Fabricating dust covers?
Tom Sherman Wrote: datakoll aka gene daniels wrote: moooo? http://cheesebyhand.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/holstein_jersey.jpg -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful The cattle could probably use some dust covers. -- meb |
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Fabricating dust covers?
meb writes:
I've had some cones work themselves loose on a Dynacraft rear wheel resulting in enough play to cause the dust cover under the freewheel to get mangled. ... I was wondering is it possible to just cut a disc from metal or plastic or cardboard of appropriate diameter to cover the bearings .... Maybe they aren't even necessary. If you regularly (like, every year) grease the bearings, nothing bad will probably happen. I lost my pedal dustcap in 1987. Nothing bad happened for 8 long years, despite the exposed bearings. - Don Gillies San Diego, CA, USA |
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Fabricating dust covers?
Donald Gillies Wrote: meb writes: I've had some cones work themselves loose on a Dynacraft rear wheel resulting in enough play to cause the dust cover under the freewheel to get mangled. ... I was wondering is it possible to just cut a disc from metal or plastic or cardboard of appropriate diameter to cover the bearings .... Maybe they aren't even necessary. If you regularly (like, every year) grease the bearings, nothing bad will probably happen. I lost my pedal dustcap in 1987. Nothing bad happened for 8 long years, despite the exposed bearings. - Don Gillies San Diego, CA, USA It's not the retaining the grease that's the problem as much as keeping out the grime. Under the freewheel, it gets mighty grimey. I've already replaced bearings and cones on that wheel once, so letting grime in there would wear those components out prematurely. The approaches suggested by Chalo and Werehatrack look like nice, simple easily implemented solutions for keeping out the grime. -- meb |
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