Special Tools suppliers

[Stephen Foster]

As Im searching for a wheel bearing retainer tool for the "Ariel" type hub I wondered where the best place to buy special tools for the B.S.A might be ?
Anyone any ideas please ?

Steve ..

[KiwiGF]

If you get desperate you can make one by drilling holes in a piece of flat bar, and welding a piece of 100mm nail in the holes which sticks out one side a few mm.

Don't whatever you do loctite the retainer threads instead of using wire or similar to hold them in place, it makes them almost impossible to remove them afterwards!

[Stephen Foster]

Thanks for the tip !!

[andy2565]

i think they're a left hand thread  to,so if its tight try the other way,

[bsa-bill]

think they're a left hand thread 

Mostly correct Andy, however when buying spares at jumbles look closely at them - there are right hand thread ones out there, I found this out after trying for a while to get one started, suspected I'd got a bad thread on it (takes a while for pennies to drop these days).
Bought a new one (retainer) and went in fine, the odd one belongs a spare hub I have so maybe some models where right handed, sure someone will inform us.

I don't have a tool but the making of one is on the to do list, thinking of a big washer with a nut welded to it for a socket and for little pegs from somewhere.
Also I reckon more than a few of us would admit to the savagery of hammer and punch 

[KiwiGF]

Where the Haynes manual said they were lh thread they weren't lh thread on my bike this led to much angst....

[duTch]

The one I made is just a length(~4") of the ok diameter muffler pipe slotted up a bit and 4 lengths of approriate dia. bar welded in, and a big nut on the other end.
 For a different hub, but same idea. Good luck, duTch

I'm a self taught welder

[Stephen Foster]

Thanks for taking time to post that advice "Dutch" .
Managed to but an adjustable peg spanner from E-bay which is perfect
for the job ...think its actually for removing grinder wheels ?

Steve ..