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stevepeanut:
I am just putting my axles back into my skyways, I have never done this before. I have put the bearings in each side, put the metal cups on, how tight to I screw on the first nut*?

*not a nut but the circular bit of metal with the flats on the side

Sid1972:
its a fine line - the wheel should spin free but have no sideways movement. Just keep adjusting it and then spin the wheel, you will get it right it may just take a couple of goes.  ;)

stevepeanut:
cheers Sid,

Sorted now but had a struggle, managed to play around and too slack I could feel movement, too right and the wheel was not spinning freely. As soon as I started tighetening the outer nuts on the forks, it was turning the inside axle nuts and putting pressure on the bearings and making the wheel tight. I got an angle grinder on an old spanner and halved the thickness of the spanner head making a thin spanner so I could stop the inner nuts moving, while tightening the outer ones. Sorted  :)

not johndub71:
Circle bit with flats = cones.

stevepeanut:

--- Quote from: johndub71 on February 27, 2013, 08:20 PM ---Circle bit with flats = cones.

--- End quote ---

cheers, now I remember I have heard the term cone spanner

must be the same as what I made

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