Shimano 600 tricolor front hub cones. 11 bearings per side?

[trail-blazer]

Just replaced the badly pitted cups in my front hub with NOS ones. Quite a fiddly job but very happy with the end results.

But.... just clocked some pitting/scoring on one cone. I'm sure they'll run reasonably OK but new cones would make them feel like new again.

I tried some, better condition, Weinmann cones on the axle and they fitted fine with similar dimensions but they don't have the little o-ring/seal so there is a bigger gap between the cone and the hub's dust covers.

Maybe bodging an o-ring on to the Weinmann cones could be an option?

 

[cce]

Re: Shimano 600 tricolor front hub cones. Can they be sourced?

Wheels manufacturing do replacement cones for Shimano

Rear
Left CN-R002 Right CN-R001

Front CN-R096

https://wheelsmfg.com/tech/PDF/hub_cone_chart.pdf

 

[trail-blazer]

Re: Shimano 600 tricolor front hub cones. Can they be sourced?

Wheels manufacturing do replacement cones for Shimano

Rear
Left CN-R002 Right CN-R001

Front CN-R096

https://wheelsmfg.com/tech/PDF/hub_cone_chart.pdf

Thanks. I put the Shimano cones in the hub and they were hideously noisy. Weinmann ones run great, though. Makes me think I could have got away with retaining the original pitted cups but the cones didn't look that bad. :facepalm: Of course, new ones had to be better than pitted, you would think?

I can buy a NOS Exage QR hub for £9, delivered, on eBay which is from the same era and would probably work out cheaper than Wheels Mfg. cones. The axle, cups, bearings and shell would all be handy as spares. There would still be a slightly bigger gap, than standard, as I don't think Exage cones have the o-rings and had a different style of dust cover.

Anyone know the bearing count tor this hub? I know it's usually ten, a side, for Shimano fronts but the usual gap was massive with ten and it took eleven, comfortably. I probably binned the originals without counting as they were cattled.

A bit of googling suggests eleven is correct.

 

[mattr]

If the geometry of the new cones is different, you'll end up needing a different number of bearings anyway.
And the hub might end up a different length......

 

[cce]

If the geometry of the new cones is different, you'll end up needing a different number of bearings anyway.
And the hub might end up a different length......

it's worth paying a wee bit extra to do it right, especially after all the effort replacing the cups