Tryke this on for size

[Jeffery A. Hunt]

Well, the hubs are bent, the hoops themselves are damaged beyond any help I could give to them, as well as bent. Now I need to locate 2 hoops @24" and 28 spokehole, for a price I can afford. I suppose somewhere around $50 for both hoops would be about good, I hope. I guess I could start a LOOKING TO BUY post here in the classifieds. If I can't massage the hubs into a useful state, I need to find a method to fab a new set and if that happens I can reset just how many spokes the wheels will utilize, but 24"does seem like the size I should stick to, strengthwise. The hubs seem pretty basic and simple, but I bet that's what BRAIN SURGEONS say about the next surgery they'll do, and with the large amount of skill they have, simple would describe it. In contrast, I will be wading into the water of PRE-MED almost blindly, but I believe in me, so eventually I will come out on top. Enough talk, time to start this ball rollin'.

 

[Jeffery A. Hunt]

OK!! Tore the wheels apart and tossed all but the hubs, which are bent and lopsided and poorly made overall.
BUT... they are really basic design-wise, so, being the re-up-use-ologist-mech-nician that you've all seen on the radio, I decided that a couple of wheels in my shed were gonna give their lives so that my Tryke would live on!
I grabbed a pair of front wheels with disc brake hubs and began the disassembly of same. Unlaced, unspoked, undisc-ed (more on those later!), and ultimately un-hubbed the two of them to get the spoke flanges, with their little holes all around and the big hole in the middle, all by themselves.
Now I am seeking the pipe or tube for the axle-sleevey, hub-center, holding the flangey spoke thingies part of these new creations. I am confident that I can find something that has the I.D. of the axle O.D. and the O.D. of the flangey-thingies's former hub-hole's I.D., you with me?
Weight is no issue so any & all materials are fair game, as long as it is ferrous, I'm thinking. The hubs I bastardized for this were oh-so-close to being the same, and though not, they are within about a millimeter & 1/2 of being the same, and I think that once they are laced into the new hoops, which WILL be the exact same size, that mm&1/2 won't even be a factor in any way.
I don't know yet if I will do 24" or 26" hoops, but I do know the spoke-count will be @36.
I have pics coming of the carnage shortly, and then I can begin the search for the middles of these friggin' things.
Hope your day is going at least as good as mine seems to be!
Peace!

 

[Jeffery A. Hunt]

 

[twojs.bike]

I admire your perseverance here!!!

Looks to me like you need a buddy with a machine shop. The next step is likely not complicated if you could find someone with a lathe. But not my area of expertise.

 

[Jeffery A. Hunt]

Right. Lathe would be SO lux at this point, I'll be happy to find a decent welder. Don't think epoxy has not crossed the mind, JB Weld is great stuff!! LOL!!