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Originally Posted by 1930artdeco
Just curious, can the key way be welded up and then recut?
Mike
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This is possible - but you're probably talking full weld/magnaflux/lathe/milling machine rebuilder.
You essentially end up recutting the taper on the axle. This to restore (and prove out) the axle taper as "collinear." Possibly to result in "shims" to make up the difference?
I have heard of someone who cut the keyway on the opposite side. Were this mine I would make a "filler piece" to fill in the old shaft key way.
In mounting a hub, the hub actually "stretches" a bit. I.e. a "plastic deformation." This wants to have "support" in the old keyway area lest the wheel rotate "off-center" in plastic deformation.
Joe K