Pursangs "Vintage Morgan" Inspired 3 Wheeler.

Found a new use for the shaft fixture used when cutting the key ways. Shaft is aligned squarely and straight to the engine mounting plate and output shaft.

After cutting the key ways, it turned out that the shaft (bought new) was actually spaghetti. Visibly plus or minus 1mm at several points along it's 1300mm length. I set it up in needle roller bearings and V-blocks, then measured and massaged it to nearly straight. Biggest variation is now 0.1mm (around 0.004".), hopefully this will be sufficient.

Cut some key-ways in a shaft. 5mm slots in a 3/4" 304 SS. round bar. First time I've done one like this, rather pleased with how they turned out. The mounting fixture might have been a tech school project, I found it at a garage sale. It's bolted down to the cross slide vice on my little lathe drill mill. Budget Chinese slot drill in the drill chuck, 'cos my collet chuck has imperial sizes (1/4" collets, not 6mm).

Brass bushes fitted into the sliding tube parts of the stub axles. Bored with my little lathe. Pillars cut to length. One of those things that just accidentally worked out well, the cut off point required the friction disc up against the welded on travel limiter.

These might be interesting to some builders. 19mm x 35 X 11 bearings. Because I'm building my own stub axles these bearings will allow me to fab them with HD 19mm axles. So long as they are not made out of Chinese cheese they will be great. Of course, at less than $2 ea. they could be replaced after each meeting!

My front wheels have arrived. Chinese dirt bike, nice quality.....and the price... around $54 ea. with free shipping. Whoo Hooo! These were on Aliexpress, you need to spend a fair bit of time sussing out the bargains and pay particular attention to the shipping cost. Bit of tension while monitoring the tracking, they were held up at Chinese airport for a couple of weeks to get on special "oversize'" freight flights. I actually got some discount vouchers because of the delays. My original plan was to build my own wheels around some nice 1970's Yamaha MX hubs I have. Then sourcing the 17" rims and custom spokes, tyres, tubes and rim bands, add the time to assemble and true and we are looking at hundreds & hundreds of $$$$$ for 2 wheels. Now that I have the wheels, I can finish the pillar spacing and the stub axle design to meet the track width spec.