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I just now noticed something. Why do these straight axles have set screws?
Moderator: Joe Boyle
Dunno about the set screws, but I have seen Geezer-ized front trucks with set screws also.Wesley Tucker wrote:I just now noticed something. Why do these straight axles have set screws?
Same with my GeezerX 90mm Indy, the axle is setscrewed in placeCurt C wrote:Dunno about the set screws, but I have seen Geezer-ized front trucks with set screws also.Wesley Tucker wrote:I just now noticed something. Why do these straight axles have set screws?
If you are asking about the Speed-dealer truck, it does have longer axles. I run the 88mm truck on my GS board with 2 bearing races on each side as spacers, giving me about 14mm on each side. This makes the hanger 116mm, wide enough IMO.Wesley Tucker wrote:So, I guess when these trucks are reengineered the hangars bored out to accept a 10mm axle but a press no longer installs the axle snug in the sleeve? So it's a true 10mm bore with a true 10mm axle and thus set screws are the only way to keep it in place.
I guess the next question would be if longer axles are available as an option? Getting a thin 90mm hangar could be widened with a longer axle and some spacers. Voila! Instant tight-to-GS truck. I'm sure with all the space-age hardened materials that are available an addtional 10mm on an axle wouldn't automatically leading to any bending (Jason and Mollica excepted, of course.)
Here's another example, an Indy 101 with true ball pivot & 8mm axle. The 8mm upgrades that I did myself used loctite but for this one I had a machinist do the axle along with the ball pivot and he chose to use set screws.Wesley Tucker wrote:I said "set screw" but it could easily be a roll or small drift pin based on the photo.
It still remains the only straight axle I've seen with some sort of set hardware.