Briefly, stripped out the aluminium full width hubs on my '57 NH as the rims were rusted. New rims and spokes, got the front laced to the hub in which I had placed new bearings. I cleaned up the bearing sleeve and the inside of the brake plate hole, as they had been a pig to separate. Mounted it up on the bike as I had replaced the fork tubes and everything, and wanted to set the wheel rim up for final truing.
This is where I am flummoxed, the brake plate only goes on about 7/8 of the way, then stops dead. It is nice and free on the sleeve, (I have actually tried it back to front). Where it stops it spins beautifully, though I don't know on what, as there is no shoulder on the sleeve, and just the bearing rims and felt washer the only things inside that could touch.The brake plate is clearly not all the way home. No, I didn't change the shoes or anything on the hub, all left exactly as they were.
So I tried mounting it on the forks and tightening up the spindle to make it settle into place. Still no movement, and the wheel jammed solid!
Obviously I've done something wrong, but no idea what
