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Old 12-31-24 | 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 3dvvitch
My humble contribution for now is a picture of a Charlie Cunningham modified Hi-E hub with very wide flange spacing. The outer lip holding the bearings has also been machined away and the flange end sections have been riveted to the main body so that the bearings can be replaced much more easily. The picture caption also says that a grease guard port has been added, although this may have been an erroneous interpretation. It's interesting to try to figure out how a grease guard system could have been added, given that it needs internal seals to direct grease only to the bearings and prevent the grease from filling the whole hub cavity in order to work as Charlie intended.
Well I can't say for sure that this particular hub was GreaseGuard™, but the early GG hubs were in fact Hi-E hubs that Charlie deconstructed and modified. How the internal seal worked, I haven't a clue. But this hub could be one of those, and I'm gonna say it likely is, since the person who took the pic and wrote it up says it is. We'll probably never know.
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