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Offline Chromo Buzz

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Evening all,

I'll keep this one short & let the pic's do the talking, bought a set of 'well used' red tuff's off a fellow radster :daumenhoch:(though he may not approve what i've done to them >:D). Then 2 wk's ago i won a NOS set of red tuff's with no hub's, so i basically cut out the old hub's on the bandsaw at work, then hacksawed through the rivet's, 1 pair of hub's were slightly dished in so i used a fly press to sort them out, next step to clean up the hub's & a good polishing.

Next step was to glue them in with aerospace  industrial strength adhesive & stand back & admire :coolsmiley:

Here's the pic's










These will be going onto my 3rd carpet queen that's been 18 month's in the making, it's a Haro Master(85) in 'dayglo' orange(courtesy of SBD ;)), just sorting out a few little finishing touch's to it & will post the complete pic's up in a couple of week's :smitten:

Thank's for looking chap's, hope i havn't offended too many of ya................Buz :daumenhoch:

Offline glenboy

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brilliant work  :daumenhoch: i was a bit shocked on the first pics and thought  :wtf: and then saw later pics and got it, brilliant resto just hope the glue holds  ;D, look superb great resto work

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     :4_17_5:   top job can't beat getting stuck into a challenge  :daumenhoch:
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bit shocked as well but seeing what you did and how they turned out looks cool  :daumenhoch:

just do doing the same if you want a bit more length on the old fellow  ;D

now you got to think of some thing clever to do with the old sawn mags  :coolsmiley:
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Offline RATTY

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Why did you need to cut the hubs out?
A long time ago, in a land far away!

Offline oldschoolace

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 :shocked: I'm guessing you dont have any drill bits at work  ;)
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Great job! I love alloy hubbed Tuff II's (contrary to what one of my previous posts said :-[ )
You did well to get the replacement wheels in such great condition.
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Offline ron burgundy

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What an abomination. Why did you not buy a set of fooked black tuffs and chop them up?

I see no skill here, just a lack of patients. :idiot2:
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How much is the can of liquid NOS? That's got to be highly prized amongst collectors   ;)  ;D
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Why did you need to cut the hubs out?

To save the original rivets.  If you replace a hub. the hardest thing to do is make the rivets look original - either that or use screws which looks crap.  I can see why he went this way but it was a shame to kill an old set of Tuffs.    :crazy2:


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Great job you've done there!  :daumenhoch:

Offline AKGOFF

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Regardless of what you did to the first set, the end result looks superb so well done.
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Offline meticulous

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See'ing the first pic I said to myself ' fook fook fook!'

The end result is amazing and understand why you did it...

Can you use your industrial strength glue on putting the old tuffs back together?
R.I.P  O.M. Far short of the finish line...

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R.I.P 25 Year old wheels  :'(


Offline Badbaldie

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ok im lost  :-\  end result = perfect  :daumenhoch: BUT  why cut the original wheels ?, i take it uve used the original rivits so how did u get them out ? did u have to butcher the cut hubs even more ? surely the original rivits would have been hammered over at each end (thats how rivits  work) so how did u get them out to re use , persuming u did? and if u didnt why cut the original wheels up. ? like i said thow end result brilliant  :daumenhoch:

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by the looks of things he cut the rivet bolts in the centre of each length (thus leaving a part of the bolt on each hub flange.  they could then be removed and then slid back in making it look original.   To do this you would have to demolish the old wheel.

shame though as with some work those old red tuffs could've been brought back to life  :-\

Oh and the flanges weren't polished either  :daumenhoch:

snav69

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 :-\

Are these now going to be passed off as NOS 80's Skyways  ???

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Offline kungfunky

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So what was wrong with the OG set then ?  Was it not worth cleaning them first ?
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Offline meticulous

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Hindsight...  Wouldn't it of been better to cut up the aluminium flanges then cut out the rivits the same way?  then just wait for some nos flanges to come on eBay or here....

Tis a shame them skyways have lived 30 years intact, only to be distroyed in seconds....  :'(
R.I.P  O.M. Far short of the finish line...

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2 sets that could have been used = 1 set (that are nice) but cannot be used   :-\

or can they be ridden on?

Offline Julian347

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What is the fascination with wanting to chop up Skyways at the moment?  :tickedoff:

From having two sets of wheels that could be saved/ridden, we now have one set that definitely can't and one that possibly can't.

Offline Chromo Buzz

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Thank's guy's for all the comments, good & bad ;)
I bought the used set with every intention of restoring them, it did state in the "for sale" thread that one had a slight crack but not that one of the hub's was caved in slightly. Then the nos one's came up on the bay so i had a plan >:D It's not that i was being impatient, as i have been trying to get hold of  some alloy hubbed tuff's in red for over a yr.  A minty set of used red one's went for about £255 on the bay last wk, these worked out much less doing this way.  I realised i was never gonna please every one going down this route, but need's must. I see this as enjoying a hobby that take's me back to some happy day's during my teenage yr's & am now getting the bike's i could only dream about  :smitten:

Buz :daumenhoch:

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good job but just wondered what this has cost you all together including time ??

must be close to the £255 ?

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so would that glue hold them if ever ridden ?.
just thinking down the line if you ever sold em and some poor fooker took em out for a spin  :crazy2:
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R.I.P 25 Year old wheels  :'(


:yahoo_silent:   :'(

You could/should have just drilled out the old rivets, gone to a metal merchants who would have supplied you with some metal rods, given them to the man Sawzell who would have replaced your rivets to near perfection.

Like whats been said, why chop up a RED set?? Black we could live with as they are everywhere, but RED  :crazy2:

Oh well.....another set bites the dust  :(
« Last Edit: April 12, 2012, 11:50 AM by Londonhellboy »
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