I went shopping for my wife at our favourite big hardware store for some potting soil and other garden stuff. While walking down the aisle with the wheelbarrows and things, I spied a single lonely wheel. I asked if any more were available for the same price as displayed on the wheel. I was handed two more so I reluctantly decided to buy them thinking that they might be good for a second sandyacht that I could build for my wonderful wife. The wheels are 390mm in diameter across the tyres, have a steel hub (wheel?) that is 220mm in dia and have two el-cheapo bearings in them. The tyre is marked 4.80/4.00-8 and rated to 30psi. They have a steel hub and it looks like a precision bearing type 6003 will fit straight in. Ok, they are made in China and are copies of the Falshaw wheels. The steel is not quite at thick as the falshaw wheels I already have but I bought them in the hope they could be used for a LLM. The cost for the three wheels was a total of $30.00 or $10.00 each. Was this a good deal? or was this the most fabulous deal ever? I cant wait to start on the LLM.

Kody

Joe, I think you have scored well. No doubt the shop is the one with all the Bunnies. The one down here is not big enough to carry the bigger range of goods.

The paint tends to fall off those cheap wheels fairly early in big sheets. If that happens, let them rust up a little, give them a quick scrub to remove rust dust or flakes, then coat with FERTAN (tannic acid from the mimosa tree) and repaint.

I was at BSC the other week and picked up an NSK Bearing Manual about 1" thick and the BSC bearing booklet they give to the farmers. Should be able to look up any bearing in existance now. Cheers Peter