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Title: Skyway Hubs
Post by: Gashead on August 22, 2010, 08:01 PM: I have a set of ally tuffs and the ally is not great ! Pitted etc

Can the rivets be taken out, then get the hubs re chromed and re fitted ?

Anyone ever done it ?

Nick
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: 58 delray on August 22, 2010, 08:43 PM: nick, they were never chrome only polished ally :daumenhoch:

andy
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: CD17 on August 22, 2010, 09:03 PM: Yes as /\/\/\ he has said 8)
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: Gashead on August 22, 2010, 09:15 PM: Looks like chrome as its flaked off a bit ?
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: animal on August 22, 2010, 09:15 PM: Anybody got a pic 4 reference purposes after removal ?
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: animal on August 22, 2010, 09:17 PM: Nick r they earlier ones with the steel chromed hubs then ? Hubs r flatter than the ally ones ?
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: Rodgy1970 on August 22, 2010, 09:23 PM: It can be done, read a thread somewhere about this recently, there's a fella who can replace the rivets and fit new ones using a press, the only hitch is (I think) he's in Australia, he's called Waza007 on the forums.

Heres the thread:-

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=244347&p=1
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: fischflo on August 22, 2010, 10:20 PM: Quote from: ANIMAL on August 22, 2010, 09:15 PM
Anybody got a pic 4 reference purposes after removal ?

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v521/fischflo/tuffWheelHub_removed_.jpg)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v521/fischflo/tuffHub_removed_coasty.jpg) pics courtesy coasty and Maurice
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: Gashead on August 22, 2010, 10:23 PM: Yep , they are the early one's !
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: animal on August 22, 2010, 10:58 PM: Pics of rivets ?
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: fischflo on August 23, 2010, 12:41 AM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v521/fischflo/daffy4_3.jpg)
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: 58 delray on August 23, 2010, 12:33 PM: Quote from: Gashead on August 22, 2010, 10:23 PM
Yep , they are the early one's !
in that case ignore what i said :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: Rodgy1970 on August 23, 2010, 01:53 PM: Quote from: ANIMAL on August 22, 2010, 09:15 PM
Anybody got a pic 4 reference purposes after removal ?

Check this out, theres a few on here!

http://mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: fischflo on August 23, 2010, 02:11 PM: there you can also see his temporary "faux rivets"-solution.

If you decide to take the flanges/hubs off, make sure you drill-off the rivets from the right side. I remember reading somewhere that the right side is the side where the caps of the rivets are untouched/original/flat, NOT the side where they seem pressed.
Resaon is the rivets or the canal through which they run, seem to be conic. So that you will most probably crack the wheels if you attempt driving-out the rivets from the wrong side. :-[
Title: Re: Skyway Hubs
Post by: CD17 on August 23, 2010, 10:26 PM: It can be done 8)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b366/claire169/IMG_2865.jpg)