I bought an old Maxi-(car?) drum brake hub with said brake on left side and a 4-speed F/W on the right side. In referencing a good Maxi-Car website, this hub appears to date from about WW2. Questions: It says "Maxi" on the drum side. Was Maxi the early name for Maxi-Car? Or is/was Maxi a different company altogether?
If the freewheel were removed I would think this hub could be converted to a single speed with one of the old Moyne single speed freewheels.
And a fixed gear system seems like it would work as the drum is cable operated. I imagine the biggest obstacle in the conversion would be sourcing a shorter axle. But then again I could have absolutely no idea what I am talking about.
Ted E. Baer Foggy morning in Palo Alto, CA
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On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:44 AM, M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl> wrote:
> On 1/28/2011 11:26 AM, David Allan Feller (MH) wrote:
>> How do we know that the hub, threaded on both sides, is not a tandem hub
>> threaded for a drag brake on the left? These were produced by Maxi-car
>> in fair numbers.
>>
>> David Allan Feller
>> Cambridge UK
>
> Lock ring threads ;)
>
> mvg
>
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