Buying a "drift"

Ingah · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Karma :

Need to buy a drift to knock out the front wheel bearings of my CB500 so i can change them (i don't have random bits of metal lying around i can use).

Is this what i'm after?:
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Parallel-Pin-Punch-Drift-Set-1-8-3-8-200mm-8-5pc-New-/120583683752?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item1c1358fea8

Cheers, Karma

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That_Hornet · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Karma :

Look through some skips. I have a small selection from taken out the skip at work. Includes a few steel rods about 1ft, bits of copper pipe (heating) about foot long each. Solid copper drift 1ft by 1". Some was off some scrap metal left for the pikeys in the tipper to come along.
It all gets used in some form.

Just keep an eye out for some.

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Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Machine Mart, use web site. Plenty of stores around, if you want to view before you buy, use the store locator.
Sealey tools online. or general motorfactors. Most do Draper tools, and they have a pretty good set of drifts punches & chissels, think theres 5 or 6 in the set, for about a tenner.
well worthy investment.
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..... · Quote Me Happy Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Karma :

I'd get a set of brass drifts so they're generally softer than what you're hitting. For doing wheel bearings I use a length of steel rod about a foot long and a cm in diameter. It has a good sharpish lip on it and the extra length helps when you pass it through the hub to knock the bearings out the other side.

Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

A drift is nothing more than a rod or bar for using as an extension for transferring impact energy from the hammer to the object you're wanting to hit. Old socket-set extension rods make quite good drifts if you cut the square drive off the end - but beware as once you've used it as a drift it's ruined as an extension rod.

For wheel-bearings you have to have a quite hard drift as the bearing race is very hard and usually you only have a tiny edge to get purchase on. You will lose the edge of the drift if it's too soft and have to keep cutting it back.
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beast rider · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Karma :

I know it's different but when i done the head bearings on my old cb i used a long flat headed screw driver to get it started then used the claw end of a hammer to prise it out.

Was this wrong?

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iooi · Super Spammer Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Karma :

Got a local garage.

Take wheel off and ask them to tap em out. Even a car one should be able to do that for you.
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yen_powell · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Karma :

Like a lot of things in life, sometimes 'longer' is better. The things shown in your post are okay as punches but not really long to reach the opposite side of a rear wheel and still have a bit left to hold onto when you wack it.
https://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/yen_powell/P1010713.jpg
https://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/yen_powell/P1010712.jpg
https://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/yen_powell/P1010714.jpg
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Ingah · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Karma :

After sitting on it for a while, have sent some queries off to GMF / Sealey's etc.

If i don't have any (cheap) joy with those companies, would these do? (in fact, for the cheap price, they appeal strongly):
https://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_525157_langId_-1_categoryId_165469

I'm kinda running out of time now, i've got BikeSafe next weekend and i want to fix my bearings beforehand.
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BanditsHigh · Worse than a woman Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Karma :

See the thing inside your skull ... yes that gooey blob ... it's called a brain ... try using it ... ever heard of a flat bladed screwdriver?

I don't understand why you are trying to make a simple job difficult!

Hope this helps.

All the best ... Barry

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stonesie · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Karma :

How about a length of steel or brass bar from a place like B&Q? or a trip to your local friendly motorfactors?

The bearings in a car's rear drum brake are not a million miles away from what you are trying to change so any garage can do it for you too.

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Ingah · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Karma :

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=2573206

I think i'll take a visit to B&Q or Machine Mart before next time i try this job...

About a centimeter diameter and a foot in length? Righto.
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