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    Thanks for the compliments!

    That's interesting that they were still teaching about wooden hubs as late as that!
    I know the name stayed as 'coachbuilding' for a long time-another friend of mine did it under than name also & went into building trams for the Brisbane council.

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    Wheely put me onto this thread,knowing my interest in this subject.But on a smaller scale.
    I have some photos of wheel making at Sovereign Hill ,about 2 years ago while doing research for my scale model Concord Stage Coach > i will dig them out if you are interested.I think I have posted some awhile ago in a thread as well
    Pic is of 7" wheel I am making
    Sorry for a bit of a hijack.I want to keep track of this subject
    Back To Car Building & All The Sawdust.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stewey View Post
    Thanks for the compliments!

    That's interesting that they were still teaching about wooden hubs as late as that!
    I know the name stayed as 'coachbuilding' for a long time-another friend of mine did it under than name also & went into building trams for the Brisbane council.
    Yes 1970/71 was the name change the course changed much from late 70's now is broken up so far, restoration work is a different course, Fiberglass.

    Yes one of our class fellows moved to Brissy with his parents tried to get into Denning who ran their own classes . They got him transferred to Brissy Council's vehicle building section but not without lots of hassle and Ultimo TAFE teachers fight for him.

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    Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I thought with the experience of the people that have already posted in this thread, they might be able to help me with a wooden chassis.

    I am currently making some simple food trolleys, roughly 2 metres in length x 1 metre wide and 2 metres high. I was going to attach the wheel axle to the trolley via welding metal support and bolting straight to the wooden frame. Like in the first picture of the original trolley I'm reproducing.

    But welding or using all metal supports is not an option and I would like to use a mostly wooden under carriage/chassis. In the other pictures attached, this is an idea of how I was going to do it. The overall weight of the trolley will be very small, nothing compared to the weights involved with full blown horse drawn carriages/buggies. It will just be for displaying and serving food in a hotel.

    I'm planning to attach the axle to the wood frame by using u-bolts. But if anyone can suggest a better method please let me know as having never built anything like this I'm flying by the seat of my pants and I'd rather get it right on the first attempt. I attempted to google some answers, but only found really technical drawings with suspensions etc or made from metal

    Regards,
    Shane.

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    Hardware store u-bolts will be quite fine for what you want to do.

    The other option in your case is take a wooden block, and drill a hole in it with a spade bit at the same diameter as the 'axle' shaft you have. Then cut this in half, and bolt the two halves on - one each side- with the half hole on the underneath, so it sits over the axle.

    You can still use a u-bolt up from underneath then, through this, or some bent flat bar over the bottom & screwed up underneath the axle.

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