yeah... what he said :)
Good job, whew...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@ntsource.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Jeff Fayne" <jeff.fayne@tellabs.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: wheel hubs on the "wrong" side - the real answer
> At 01:41 PM 12/28/2000 -0600, Jeff Fayne wrote:
> >Perhaps an answer lies here, at least the logic appears correct:
> >http://www.vtr.org/maintain/wire-wheels-tightening.html
>
> Most of the _guesses_ are so far off the wall that you couldn't play
> handball with them, but this particular explanation is very close but
still
> not quite complete. In fact the cause of self tightening has nothing to
do
> with the construction of the wheel being a wire wheel, as the center lock
> alloy wheels will do the same thing. And the self tightening action in
> fact _depends_ on a small amount of clearance in the splines so that the
> parts can move slightly if the nut is a little loose.
>
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> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
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