So I've got a non-boost hub, and a Boost fork on the way, good news however I've ordered a cheapy boost sapcing kit with a rotor spacing shim and and couple of 5mm axle spacers.
Everything should be ticky boo, until the inevitable happens and I take the axle out in a carpark, go and forget about them and those axle washers go walkabout.
Obviously I'll go looking for proper extended endcaps but my first though was, is there some clever way to retain those spacers so they don't go walkabout? I was thinking high strength double sided adhesive tape between spacers and hub endcaps or a couple of wraps of Insulating tape or a thin loop of heat shrink or a tight fitting ring (3D printed or turned) epoxied onto the OD?
Anyone else bodged a fix to this issue? of should I just order lost of spare 5mm spacers?
Insulation tape kinda works
dob of sikaflex?
i used superglue!
Shrinkwrap applied with a got air gun.
That's what I did
Wrap both tightly in several layers of electrical tape. In 5 years mine has unwrapped about 1cm. Do it the right way so that anything caught in the spokes will flatten the tape not catch on it.
It was all I had to hand at the time and i expected to have to replace it with heat shrink or similar pretty quickly but haven’t needed to.
Sounds like I've had all the same ideas as everyone else, good to know.
Cheers all!
When my non boost hub is out of the boost forks, I just attach the spacers to the wheel with a reusable tie wrap. Hasn't failed yet.
I used superglue, it didn't work.