Tire change turns into repairing spun wheel bearing!

[Buicknick72]

So I get my new tires in, and pull the rear wheel. First time taking a shaft drive tire off. It is nice and easy.

I take a quick look at the wheel bearings, first one has a bit of slop, think ugg should have thought ahead and ordered them, but being this easy to take off the wheel, I'll just do them in a few weeks. Then I look at the other bearing, OH BOY! The thing is just flopping around in the bore. The outer race spun inside the hub. Probably .020" play. Oddly the bearing itself spun freely, so maybe someone previously replaced it without fixing the issue. So I tear it all down.

I just talked to a machinist that we deal with at my work. I've read most people clean up the bore and just use shims. But he suggested running some weld on the inside of the hub to build up the material and then he'll just turn it back to the original dimension. He's gonna talk to his welder about it, make sure it's doable. Otherwise we'll just bore it even and press in a shim. I ordered all new wheel bearings, front and back and seals and o-rings.

So now the bike is just sitting on its center stand in my parents drive way I may end up picking up my new bike before this one even hits pavement again.

[Buicknick72]

So for anyone that comes across this in a search with a similar issue-

I got the rim back from the machine shop. He was able to have the worn surface built up with weld, and then turned it down to spec on his lathe. Everything re-assembled fine. To have a shop do it might be more expensive than getting a used rim off ebay, but he didn't charge me anything.
The one thing to be very careful about is the lip in the rim that stops the bearing when you are pressing it in. On mine he could see the factory machining marks so he knew it was not worn, and left it be. But if it is worn, or the weld gets on it and isn't brought back to exactly where it was from the factory, then the bearing side preload will not be correct and you will have a long term issue.