From: | Chris Bastiaansen | e-mail: | chrisbastiaansen@hotmail.com |
Subject: | RE: RE: RE: Looking for Ace fronthub | Date: | Mon Aug 25 16:13:31 2014 |
Response to: | 5317 |
Thanks Doug for taking the time to help me out, appreciate this very, I contacted Barry already for the hub, thanks again, Chris ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Barry, I measured a laced up Ace wheel for reference. From your photo, the closest one appears to be the second down on the left. Ace used two style hubs. Early had ball bearings and beginning in 1923 they were the first company to use tapered roller bearings. The hubs were symmetrical, that is they were the same on both ends. There was no lubricator. Ace was a small company and didn't make their own hubs. So another manufacturer may have used the identical hub, that is until the tapered bearing version arrived on the scene. The overall width of the hub, empty, is 3.584 inches. The outer diameter of the center hub section is 1.636 inches. The outer diameter of the bearing cup ends is 2.095 inches. The distance between the outside of the spoke flange to the opposite side is 3 inches with a 0.25 inch distance, on each side, from the spoke flange to the edge of the bearing cup. ACEdoug ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Here are a bunch of early hubs. I have only been able to identify one or 2 believed to be H.D. so far. Let me know if any are of interest and I can send dimensions and better images. |