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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
It seems easy enough to do with a couple of dowel pins for transmitting torque, rather than the usual bolted-together wheels and hubs, or single-piece wheel-and-hub units; you just need a way to constrain the components axially.
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Like a car! I hadn't thought of it that way. A car has a live axle which ends with a faceplate that has 4-6 lug bolts. You mount your tire by sliding the tire rim onto the faceplate, and tightening the lug nuts. Instead of dowel pins, a faceplate with bolts sticking out would handle your axial and radial movement when you tighten the wheel down with nylon-insert nuts.
What came first: the student or the mentor?