The rims came today and look lovely.
And I found another hiccup on those cones. They are too wide as is and I need to remove .080 on each. I can do this on the lathe but I need an arbor. Maybe I can use the three jaw but there isn't a lot of meat to grab on so I started looking for something to make an arbor. The thread is M9x1.0 and that is the snag.
9mm thread is rare. I couldn't find anything at the usual hardware stores. Then I went to the speciality fastener store and they had nothing. I was resigned to order it from McMaster Carr and wait a couple days but MC had nothing either. Nothing showed up on Amazon. McMaster Carr did have a M9x1.0 die for $48. So maybe I can chuck up a chunk of rebar in the lathe and cut it down and run the die to get the threads and have an arbor.
wtf,,, why is everything so difficult?
My brother told me the only thing he has in M9 is in the engine of his dune buggy (rod bolts). This made me go down another path. I have old rod and flywheel bolts for my BMW motorcycles and checked those but they were too big. Then I went back on Ebay and found 9mm rod bolts for VW type 1 engines for under $10 and a lot of other 9mm rod bolts for old Kawasakis and Polaris (snow mobiles?)
so... maybe get a VW rod bolt to make an arbor but then I remembered we have a surface grinder in our family machine shop. Doesn't everyone have a surface grinder in the corner that they use once every decade?
I have options: make an arbor with a VW rod bolt and use the lathe or use the surface grinder.
An easier way would be to buy a set of Shimano 105 hubs ($90) on Ebay and keep the Campy hubs as paperweights but this is becoming a issue of pride now. I'm not going to let these Campy hubs beat me.