re-rubbering British wheels

[listerdiesel]

We have had four wheels from Roy, and although they won't be used on a carrier, just our engine trolley, they look like a good quality job.

We shipped four wheels out to him via a friend in Holland who bought an engine from us, and then the friend bought the replacements over in June.

Price per wheel was Euro 125.

That is a good price as long as the carriage costs are kept within reason.

We have four more wheels to go over soon, we have a second Ruston & Hornsby dynamometer engine set that we bought in February that is going onto a trolley.

Pictures below show the wheels as received, painted and mounted, and the whole engine trolley.







Note that we use 2" axles on the trolley, the bearings are about £7 each (6310 2RS) a lot cheaper than the 'proper' 1-1/4" size bearing.

Peter

[roy206]

looks great peter

[Stew Robertson]

Roy; I don't turn mine
they come right out of the mold like the pictures

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but I sure do not know how you can do them so cheap my material cost more than125.00 cnd. $ the best I can do is 200.00 without the time to strip and time removing grease sand blasting so mine work out to250.00 each if they are not clean and ready to do
The ones I redo are done with the same polyurethane that is used in stamping dies that will take approximately 1 to 1 1/2 million hits before destructing under full compression

[roy206]

good to hear stew,i will make them more expensive

maybee in canada the prices for pollyurethane are higher?
customers bringing over clear wheels without bearings and grease.
we strip them down remove all the rubber by turn it
after that complete sandblasting and the moulding get on,after that again turn for the exact dimensions and they are ready.

[listerdiesel]

Yes, I can confirm that we stripped our four wheels of bearings and fittings before sending them over to Roy.

The second set are easier as we use sealed bearings with no grease on 2" axle stubs, and turned dural end caps.

Peter

[Paul Schipper]

Wanted to bump this I have a few wheels that need rerubbered. Paul

[listerdiesel]

Paul:

The costs are high, wherever you go to have it done.

We sent the first set (4 wheels) over in exchange for another set, and through a friend in Holland they came over to the UK, transport free.

The second set were our first set re-rubbered and we bought them outright from Roy with transport via a friend again.

Even so, we have been very pleased with the quality of Roy's wheels, and if you could find a way to ship to him by sea freight, that is probably the cheapest option.

We were quoted frighteningly high prices for these in the UK, something like $US 450.00 per wheel, although that probably included an element of "We don't really want to do it, but if you're daft enough to pay, we may as well make some good money out of it while we are at it" mentality.

I won't quote Roy's figures but I'm sure he will pop up with a quote, suffice it to say that had we not found Roy through the Forum, we wouldn't have used the carrier wheels.

Might be worth a post on HMVF Forum to see if anyone there has any contacts as well.

Peter