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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: pickle on October 31, 2005, 12:13 PM
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Just got some luuuurvly new wheels (many thanks adam) but my Skyway forks are a little narrow to get the axle in ??? they expand to allow the hub to sit correctly in the forks but i guess you need one of those axles with the sides flattened (tuffs?) what should i do? file the forks? file the axle? get new flattened axle?
anyone else had the same problem?
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Buy a new axle from Alans or Badger, A tuff front spindle should have the flattened sides to it so yours must have been swapped out at some point.
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if you can get one, get a flat sided axle.
someone on here should have one going i reckon.
i got some forks too that will only take a flat sider on the front.
it would take some filing to flat side it yourself. you'd probably end up munching the threads
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Buy a new axle from Alans or Badger, A tuff front spindle should have the flattened sides to it so yours must have been swapped out at some point.
my new wheels are not tuffs, so i guess thats why i have the problem......my old tuffs (which i no longer have) did have the flat axle :( stupid forks! >:(
anyone got an old one they don't want?
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you want one out of an alloy hub (i presume thats what you have) so all the cones n stuff fit. i think tuffs have a different thread pitch.
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Remember, they only need to be flat where they go into the drop out, not the whole length. I had to file the threads down to squeeze my wheels into my Robinson. Given the option I I guess I would have preferred to swap the spindle, but they were DK sealed hubs and the spindle was a bit unusual. If they are looseball then it's not so much a problem to get an axle kit.