Well, it seems I have only one rear hub with slip-on sleeves. It is not the Hi-Lo. It seems the ones with slip on sleeves have a newer larger Hi-E logo on the barrel. My newer one is also spaced 131-132 mm, so I'd have to replace sleeves or cut then down for 126. On the older pressed on ones I do note that the actual end plate, the piece that steps down to the smaller daimeter to slide into the DO, looks as if it might be a separate piece from the sleeve. Any chance these end plates might thread out of the sleeves?
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Respacing Hi-E Hubs AND World Championship Bands
\r?\n> To:
\r?\n> Cc: "Rendezvous Classic" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
\r?\n> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 10:55 AM
\r?\n> Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
\r?\n> > Sometime last year I picked up a quite a bit of Hi-E
\r?\n> stuff, much of
\r?\n> > it in one lot from a CR member. I'm thinking of
\r?\n> using a pair of Hi-E
\r?\n> > wheels, with Harlan's version of the Hi-Lo rear hub,
\r?\n> on the Paramount
\r?\n> > Elite I'm finally getting around to building up.
\r?\n> But this wheelset
\r?\n> > and most of the other rear hubs are 120 to 122 mm,
\r?\n> while the early
\r?\n> > 80's Paramount is 126 mm as one would expect.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > I know it has been said that one used to have to send
\r?\n> the hubs back
\r?\n> > to Harlan for bearing replacement, but what about the
\r?\n> end caps? Can
\r?\n> > they be removed without special tools? If so,
\r?\n> what is the best way
\r?\n> > to remove them? If I can get them off, I might insert
\r?\n> spacers under
\r?\n> > the end caps to respace to 126.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> LAter hubs had the RH endcaps reamed for a slipfit. I'd try
\r?\n> gently heating the endcap, sticking an old skewer in crooked
\r?\n> so it doesn't exit the cap and tapping with a hammer
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > This one wheelset is completely Hi-E, including hubs,
\r?\n> rims, spokes
\r?\n> > and nipples. The spoke nipples do not protrude
\r?\n> from the inside of
\r?\n> > the rim, but are tightened from outside the rim using
\r?\n> a special
\r?\n> > socket wrench. Don't some modern prebuilt wheels
\r?\n> use nipples of this
\r?\n> > type? If so, replacement nipples for these
\r?\n> modern wheels might work
\r?\n> > to replace missing Hi-E nipples. Except the Hi-E
\r?\n> nipples seem to be
\r?\n> > 15 gauge. Are any of the modern nipples 15 ga?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> HI-E nipples are also much shorter. I might be able to find
\r?\n> some
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> -- mvg
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Marten Gerritsen
\r?\n> Kiel Windeweer
\r?\n> Netherlands