Bogie Wheel Re-rubbering

[Ben]

I had the 30's dated wheels re rubbered on the Scout using the method Hanno described, it's worked very well and looks great. The mould is a quicker and cheaper option after the initial outlay of the mould. The mould will be the key to a nice job but once it exists you can knock out as many as you like comparatively cheaply.

Out of interest the old chap warned me against using polyurethane as it has a tendency to "chunk" if the wheel ever caught something hard. I showed him a rubber original that has lost a chunk of sidewall and he said the same thing would happen but in his opinion the chunks would be worse for the same given incident. Both would ultimately do the same job.

Ben

[RichardT10829]

Have looked into the wrapping method and it's an expensive way to do it, and again you get penalised for small numbers machining costs get you in the end.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Carrier owners willing to pay shipping from the Netherlands may want to consider the option offered by Roy van Dorp - see re-rubbered bogie wheels and several other threads. I know there is at least one MLU member in the UK who has bought re-rubbered wheels from the Netherlands, and several within the country. Note: I have no personal interests in this.

I did meet Roy on the XXX Corps run and he knows his restoration stuff

Hanno

[Dale Jordan]

Two options in Australia for re rubbering. Here are a couple photos of my carrier wheels from Hugh Davis ex Bob Moseley moulded tyres . I have three of these on my carrier they are top notch as well , you give him your old wheels for exchange for new wheel which are in stock . Dale

[RichardT10829]

They look excellent.... Really miss Bob's input here

[ron]

As a matter of fact I have a stack of wheels here, so Andrews idea is I think the best option , regarding the one way trip to save on freight,there is no need to consider the China option regarding track it can be done here no problem, just need a few guys to put up the cash and share the cost of the patterns and mould and keep the product at home, at some time everyone is going to require peplacement track, so it is really an investment in the future, regards Ron

[Stew Robertson]

I am of the same mind, Ron do it at home it is a lot cheaper in the long run.

I made a mold and poured a complete set carrier wheels using 80 duro polyurethane which was the same material used by the stamping industry for pressure plates and will take millions of compression hits before failure
The poly is a lot more durable than the rubber
The one I did have about 100 miles on them and still look like new
no sign of chips wear or nicks
If I can remember I will try to post some pics over the weekend
The same can be said about track every one of our countries have casting shop, why send it to China
The steel mold was so good there is not machining and you can pop out a wheel every hour if you are so inclined
to remove the rubber I just took a gear box with a through shaft and spacers to fit the hub and cut the old rubber off > I will try to get the picture of that too