English French German Italian Spanish

Odd front hub

Submitted by stuart_munroe on Sat, 07/11/2015
Forums
Nortons - General

I am rebuilding the front wheel on my 1956 ES2 and have stripped the layers of hammerite from the hub and it appears to be half steel and halve alloy. Is this right? Obviously it will need painting or stove enamelling - any advice please?

Attachments image-jpeg

Submitted by Xanna_jeannett… on Sun, 08/11/2015

Permalink

Previously stuart_munroe wrote:

I am rebuilding the front wheel on my 1956 ES2 and have stripped the layers of hammerite from the hub and it appears to be half steel and halve alloy. Is this right? Obviously it will need painting or stove enameling - any advice please?

Hello well the first full hubs came in around September 1954 on the model 88 has they were up graded a bit on cycle parts the seat changed to in this time so did the rear mudguard to a deep valance mudguard so this being a ES 2 models would of got these parts too but on a later date, has earlier parts were used up , so then you need to just paint them smooth sliver after stripping the old paint off first and get the inside of the hub checked to see if its worn and out of round were the brake shoes fits before doing any painting or lacing up , have fun yours anna j

Submitted by stuart_munroe on Tue, 10/11/2015

Permalink

Thanks for the reply Anna. Sadly no other response from the club. Over 36 replies from the Real Classic Facebook page with some really interesting support.

Submitted by richard_cornish on Tue, 10/11/2015

Permalink

Hi Stuart,

Sorry to hear your disappointment, I some times wonder if people get fed up with the same few people answering. I think the early 2 piece hub was used because there were technical problems of using all alloy hubs with iron liners andthe two piecewas a guaranteed answer, a bit like your cylinder head having an iron skull because they could not keep individual valve seats in the alloy. The Manx used magnesium hubs with liners from 1950, but I guess this was a specialist foundry job and would not have been possible or too expensive to use in mass production until they had perfected it at the right cost. Don't know if you havegot this months Roadholder yet but see the double brake article. Regards, Richard.

 


Norton Owners Club Website by 2Toucans