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problem with wheel not spinning- better but need some advice please on axle size

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ED209:

--- Quote from: griff on February 09, 2011, 12:05 PM ---...will try and slack off the nut later and see if that helps...

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always helps me relax... don't missed the tissues though  ^"^

TwoBobRob:
Loose ball hubs can be a pain in the arse. The cones need to be as loose as humanly possible without there being any play.  Then you need to lock the nuts up nicely, that in turn can tighten the cones slightly, then you need to fit the wheel and do the wheel nuts up, and that can also squash everything just enough to tighten it all up again....

So....

Nip the cones up finger tight, or slightly less, then carefully lock the locknuts. Check again, everything needs to be free as a bird at this point, maybe even a micron or two of play. Then fit the wheel and do the wheelnuts up tight, giving the wheel a spin as you do.

There's a bit of trial and error involved - don't be surprised if you end up doing it a couple of times to get it right.

The bodgers amongst us have been known to do everything up as normal, and if it goes tight on you, force the cones back a smidge while its all fitted on the bike    ;)

griff:
 :daumenhoch: will be down the shed tomorrow for another go !

griff:
so today have been building the mid-school mongoose back up

have made some progress, followed twobobrob's advice and loosened up the cone nut a bit before tightening the outer one
wheel seemed to spin nice but after tightening the wheel nut onto the fork it's gone a bit worse - now it seems to stiffen up after about half a turn  ::)
since it went dark have not tried loosening it even further, but one thing I didn't want to do was loosen the outer nuts  :D although tbh I had to give the axles a bit of a belting to get them on the fork so could probably ride without even using them

when I got to the back wheel this need for violence with the front axles became clear - unlike the front, the back wheel I think is original to the bike and the axle, while looks bigger than 10mm was too small for the 14mm nuts/pegs I'd got for it (more like 12mm once I measured it) Is this a standard size? still new to this building lark and was not aware of a size other than 10 or 14mm  :-[

HEYWOOD BMX:
 :) 12MM axles were around for a while.WeThePeople did some decent hubs in this size.Try CRC as they had some in stock for not a lot :daumenhoch:

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