Help ID a coaster brake hub

[udallcustombikes]

I know I need pics, they will be up tomorrow. I have a hub with a skip tooth sprocket. The brake arm is missing and I cannot find any markings on the housing, although it is pretty nasty. The hub housing itself is not the typical plain cylinder shape, but more of a ''barrel'' shape with two raised bands in the middle. The bands are about 1/4'' wide and 1/4" high with 1/4"-1/2" gap in the middle. The sprocket has a gap through it from the inside out. The spot where the brake arm mounts is a square 3/4"- 1".Any suggestions from the discription? If not I will post the pics in the morning. I have the matching set of wheel and no use for them. I just want to be able to list them properly when I put them up for sale. Thanks!

 

[2manybikes]

Sounds like a musselman hub, they made some for Elgins and JC Higgins bikes that had some fins on the outside of the hub shell. They were marketed as "aircooled" hubs.

 

[CCR]

yup sounds like an elgin hub (i didnt know musselman made them) the ony set ive had that sound like what your describing said ELGIN on the brake arm.

 

[udallcustombikes]

I went and checked Sheldon Brown's site and the guts of the hub I have look like a Musselman hub, but the housing I have is different. I think you are right about it being a Musselman though. I will get some pics up tomorrow.

 

[2manybikes]

Musselman made a bunch of coaster hubs without the "aircooled " fins. The finned hubs were for Elgins and Higgins bikes only. Of all the coaster hubs I have rebuilt I think the Morrows stop the best with Musselman a close second.

 

[udallcustombikes]

Ok, I think I lost a few too many brain cells when I was younger because the hub looks nothing like I described :? . Here are a few pics of the hub and the innards.

 

[JLarkin]

Musselman. I just cleaned one this morning. The brake is the same.

 

[deorman]

That there is some sweet hardware. 8)

 

[udallcustombikes]

Watch for it in a For Sale section near you.

 

[stretch]

diggin the cog, i want it!

 

[Unchained]

Watch for it in a For Sale section near you.

I wish it was a standard cog... I'd be all over it!

 

[udallcustombikes]

Any idea what this hub is off of? Maybe an age?

 

[dos cruiser]

I have a hub like that on my wifes 1941 Elgin. I've heard it called a Elgin air cool, but you know theres a lot of names out there that not always right.

 

[udallcustombikes]

Since this hub found its way back to me today I thought I would fire up the way-back machine and bring this thread back to the top. While the Musselman internals are the same as the Elgin/Higgins air cooled hubs the shell is not the same. Anyone know what brand bike wore this hub when it was new?

 

[dougfisk]

JC Higgins, postwar through early 50's (at least).