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Well, there just might be a resourcefulness award next season. As for the 1/2 inch shaft, were you refering to when I said 3/4 keyway shaft turned down to 1/2 inch on the ends to fit 1/2 in. bearings? An alternative would be to do smaller skyway wheels with 1/2in. bore keyway hubs and use 1/2 keyway shaft for the axles turned down to 3/8 on the ends for 3/8 bearings. The only real downside is that I don't think skyway has the really big wheels with the 1/2 inch hubs. Our 10x3 beadlocks came with 3/4 inch keyway hubs.

I hope this wasn't too confusing.

I'm not sure what you mean by "drill rod" but you can lighten any shaft/rod by using a lathe to turn it down or drill out the center.

Yeah, I've made another meaningful post.