I've just attacked one of my caliber trucks with a lathe

Why?

Because I’ve just got my hands on this, a bearing mounted wheel pulley

So I cut 19mm of truck allowing everything to slide together nicely. I did find that the truck axle was knurled but quickly skimmed that off

The finished product

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What RPM did you run and how much wobble did you get? Gotta face down a Paris V2

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Kept it really low, 200rpm for the out of balance centre but no wobble on the cutting face

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And just chuck the axles in the jaws and a tail stock or something in between?

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Yup, wanted to run a couple of standard sk8 bearing in the tailstock chuck but it’s only 1/2" capacity so gripped a wheel spacer in there instead and once the tailstock was locked down had no runout at all

@b264

Didnt you do something like this with your trucks?

@yelnats8j

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