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fisherflyer
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 Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 10:21 am Post subject: 8" wheels |
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Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to mount my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and paint to match anyway. But must be straight.
Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
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Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll N514RC
Enderlin ND
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KeysFox
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject: 8" wheels |
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Cal,
If you don't find any, I bought new Douglas wheels and had McBeans at
Kitfox weld the brake disc attachment lugs onto the wheels. Not cheap.
BJ Kitfox IV
| Quote: | Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to
mount
my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and paint to
match anyway. But must be straight.
Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
Thanks
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll N514RC
Enderlin ND
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fisherflyer
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| Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: 8 |
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Thanks BJ,
Any chance you would have the part # for the Douglas wheels? And did you get alum. or steel. I can weld my own lugs on steel but not alum. but not too hard to find someone who can.
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll
| KeysFox wrote: | Cal,
If you don't find any, I bought new Douglas wheels and had McBeans at
Kitfox weld the brake disc attachment lugs onto the wheels. Not cheap.
BJ Kitfox IV
| Quote: | Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to
mount
my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and paint to
match anyway. But must be straight.
Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
Thanks
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll N514RC
Enderlin ND
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KeysFox
Joined: 05 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 4:08 am Post subject: 8" wheels |
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I don;t have part number at hand. I will go to plane today and see if
there is a PN on one of the wheels. If so I'll e-mail you back. I'm pretty
sure I left a Douglas decal on the wheels but doubt it has a PN. I might
have written PN in logs. I'll check that too but not likely.
They are aluminum.
I think I went on the Douglas Wheel web site and matched the wheels using
dimensions from the original wheels and crossed that over to web site
data. It was quite some time ago and memory is lost on that.
I vaguely seem to recall that the bolt hole pattern was an issue but not
how I worked that out. My original wheels have a three hole pattern.
More after i go to my "Baby Plane".
It would be easier (cheaper) to get them from someone who has them sitting
around collecting dust, so keep asking around.
BJ
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Thanks BJ,
Any chance you would have the part # for the Douglas wheels? And did you
get alum. or steel. I can weld my own lugs on steel but not alum. but not
too hard to find someone who can.
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll
KeysFox wrote:
> Cal,
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> If you don't find any, I bought new Douglas wheels and had McBeans at
> Kitfox weld the brake disc attachment lugs onto the wheels. Not cheap.
>
> BJ Kitfox IV
> > Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to
> > mount
> > my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and
> paint to
> > match anyway. But must be straight.
> > Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
> > Thanks
> > Cal Anderson
> > Kitfox lll N514RC
> > Enderlin ND
> >
> >
> >
>
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KeysFox
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 4:32 am Post subject: 8" wheels |
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You got me energized so I went to Baby Plane. There is a decal on the
wheels. DWT 6061 [160]
DWT is Douglas Wheel & Tires logo/web site look up. 6061 is the type of
aluminum. 160 is probably the wheel PN identifier and key number if you
call DWT for the specs.
Just to make sure we are talking about apples and apples. My early Kitfox
IV 1050 came with 20 x 7 - 8 bald "Chen Seng" tires on three lug DWT
aluminum wheels.
Hope this helps.
BJ
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Thanks BJ,
Any chance you would have the part # for the Douglas wheels? And did you
get alum. or steel. I can weld my own lugs on steel but not alum. but not
too hard to find someone who can.
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll
KeysFox wrote:
> Cal,
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> If you don't find any, I bought new Douglas wheels and had McBeans at
> Kitfox weld the brake disc attachment lugs onto the wheels. Not cheap.
>
> BJ Kitfox IV
> > Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to
> > mount
> > my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and
> paint to
> > match anyway. But must be straight.
> > Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
> > Thanks
> > Cal Anderson
> > Kitfox lll N514RC
> > Enderlin ND
> >
> >
> >
>
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KeysFox
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 10:43 am Post subject: 8" wheels |
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Cal, This is just a coincidence. I ran across suggestions from Bill Mapass
for welding the tabs onto the inner edge of a Douglas Kitfox wheel in the
proper position.
This is not an exact quote - "Bolt the new tabs material to a brake rotor,
this establishes the tabs in the proper pattern in three dimensions. let
the welded cut the tabs off of the adjacent metal stock. Using the rotor
as the pattern the tabs are positioned with the proper inset depth into
the edge of the wheel and the tabs are then at least tack welded into that
position."
Some welders are better than others, I was not sure I could get this done
properly, SO,
I sent my new wheels to Kitfox to have the tabs welded onto the wheels,
bolt holes drilled into the tabs and threaded. (2009)
BJ
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Thanks BJ,
Any chance you would have the part # for the Douglas wheels? And did you
get alum. or steel. I can weld my own lugs on steel but not alum. but not
too hard to find someone who can.
Cal Anderson
Kitfox lll
KeysFox wrote:
> Cal,
>
> If you don't find any, I bought new Douglas wheels and had McBeans at
> Kitfox weld the brake disc attachment lugs onto the wheels. Not cheap.
>
> BJ Kitfox IV
> > Am looking for a set of 8" wheels for my Kitfox. Need an extra set to
> > mount
> > my Kingfox tires on. Need not be pretty as I will sand blast and
> paint to
> > match anyway. But must be straight.
> > Please respond off group to -----------calvin(at)mlgc.com
> > Thanks
> > Cal Anderson
> > Kitfox lll N514RC
> > Enderlin ND
> >
> >
> >
>
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markdonahue
Joined: 16 Dec 2012
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Location: bainbridge island washington
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 12:58 pm Post subject: 8" wheels |
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I have two wheel/brg/tire/tube set up that I don't use any more that I could
let go for a fair price. The tires are Chen Seng 20x7-8 bald and the wheels
are alum with the three lugs.
I could take a picture for you. These are original for my Kitfox IV, but
have since changed to different wheels.
Mark Donahue
206 842 7803
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markdonahue
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| Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 4:06 pm Post subject: 8" wheels |
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Clarification on my last email. The tires are tubeless (I forgot that).
The aluminum wheels are used but in pretty good shape. And I only have one
wheel bearing set. I don't know where the other one is...maybe in the
hanger. If of interest I could check that out, but I suspect you don't need
them.
Mark Donahue
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