Know a good machinist???

[DrKnow65]

I will be needing a good machinist soon,

I've bought ( will recieve Dec4th) an Academy SB V2 PRO (4wd buggy), and I will need to have a set of wheel adapters made, the outdrive is tapered and the wheel hub fits over the tapered end. I'm hoping I can find a good machinest who could turn me a custom aluminum wheel hub (would need to be very precision) that would be 17mm instead of 12mm.

I would like to run 1/8th scale street tires on it for some heavy speed runs. I know there are some 12 to 17mm adapters out there for the rockcrawlers but I'd like to steer clear of any possible vibration problems.

Here's a photo of the anodized hub and outdrive to help you see what I mean. The bearings are held in by this part, so too long/too short would be a problem. There is a long screw that holds the wheel, hub, and outdrive all togeather.

I guess I could also have a 17mm ofna hub machined to fit the 12mm hub in it like an adapter, but then the already long screw would be doing ALOT of work to keep it all togeather at 70mph or so...

Perfection would look like an ofna 17mm hub with the back having the taper mounting of the original part (and therefore riding inside the outter wheel bearing) and a 3mm hole through it for the long screw. I would be using the 17mm nut to keep the wheel on just like a regular 1/8th scale.

I want to keep the mod's on the outside of the nuckle so I could swap back and fourth easily. Price in the $50 range?