So I bought a fixed/SS frameset which came with a lipped fork that won't take standard track nuts (see below). Well done there.
Curiously, I do happen to have one 9mm nut which fits. Its flange is ~18.5mm (similar size to QR skewer nuts) rather than the ~22mm found on most track nuts. But one nut isn't really enough…
My question (since I can't get to an LBS easily, and the flange diameter is rarely listed online) is: does anyone know a source of small-flange 9mm track nuts?
For now I've bodged it with some washers (chainring spacers, I suspect) fished from the Bucket of Many Bits, but I don't have any plain old M9 nuts, and using the track nuts just leaves the captive flanges rattling annoyingly. I know I could file the tabs off the fork, but I don't want to, and I think the dropout faces are a little profiled anyway.
Any pointers? Ta.
Dunno, but much enjoyed the thread title 🙂
I did suspect that I might have run the risk of only eliciting replies to that effect 🙂
A quick Google throws up some [url= https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Weldtite-Bike-Cycle-Wheel-Axle-Track-Nuts-Sizes-5-16-3-8-9mm-9-5mm-10mm/191394514933?hash=item2c900087f5:m:mLFoa3aBiAXlaYP61-AQtaA&var=490504048697 ]Weldite ones[/url] in 4 sizes (including 9mm). No idea if they'll fit though.
I did suspect that I might have run the risk of only eliciting replies to that effect
Only from idiots though.
Only from idiots though.
You rang?
*s****s*
I've already got some Weldtite ones in the spares pile. They're standard ~22mm flanges.
I know the Halo ones are 20mm. They might work… probably marginal, though.
I've seen anecdotal evidence of Dura Ace nuts being compatible with lawyer lips, but they're £24 a pair, so they can get stuffed.
I saw a picture of some Miche ones on Hubjub in which they look nice and small, but other online pictures of Miche nuts suggest otherwise. Maybe there are two types.
Everything else I've seen just looks like standard ~22mm flanges.
I'd just file a notch in the ones in the pic - would only take two mins, they don't need to rotate.
Hm, good thought. I think they might still foul the dropout but it's worth a check.
Have you tried licking the flange? If you get it moist enough your old nuts might just slide in.
“Waiter…”
“Yes, sir?”
“There’s no double in this double entendre.”
“Please don’t shout sir, or everyone will want a good hard rodgering.”
😐
Ah, you started it💋
Are there any manufacturers of nuts and bolts near you? You may be able to get a sample in the size you want, or lathe/ grind down the offending nut.
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I’m sure I can find something somewhere. Just wondering if there were any easy options off the web. I’ll be near a Halfords tomorrow so I can give them a go. Possibly a bit optimistic, but hey 🙂
Well, neither Evans nor Halfords had any 9mm nuts. But no matter. Problem solved.
So you've replaced nuts with a lever that rotates up when in use on the flange...
*s*****
Did you lubricate the shaft before insertion?
Sorry, i stumbled into this thread hoping for something completely different...but since i'm here, so was the issue that your nuts were too big and you wanted them tighter and really you don't care about the flange?
I'm more interested in what looks like a pasta bake recipe....Better pics?
I once worked with a woman who had NEVER heard the word "Flange" in any other context other than as a synonym for vagina.
She had never heard it being used in a DIY context, never heard it in a plumbing context and never heard it in an engineering context. As far as she was concerned "Flange" equalled "vagina". That was it.
Daft old bat put in a complaint about me to the Deputy Head. She claimed that I was being "sexually inappropriate" when I wrote "flange" on a white-board whilst teaching a bit of basic plumbing to some Year 11's.
Mind you, same bloody woman wouldn't let you eat in front of her dog as it was "scared of knives and forks" so I think she wasn't the full shilling anyway.
Jesus, some people are dim.
I’m more interested in what looks like a pasta bake recipe….Better pics?
The second picture in the same post shows the adjacent page, which is a picture of a squirrel. Presumably one of the ingredients. Urban foraging is quite thing these days.
She claimed that I was being “sexually inappropriate” when I wrote “flange” on a white-board whilst teaching a bit of basic plumbing to some Year 11’s.
I assume she managed to escape the lessons covering head, screw pumps and ballcocks?
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