Any question answered...

I'm guessing the axles are a little under 9mm

M9 threads are quite a lot under 9mm OD, if you run the bearing inner race on the threaded section it will rattle around a lot. The normal sliding fit for for a nominal 9mm bearing would be a shaft diameter of 8.983 to 8.994. An M9×1 thread will have an OD of 8.79 to 8.97, probably a bit less after the ID of the bearing has beaten the tops off the crests :-(

No thread, 9mm thru axle, not threaded axle.

But yeah, I'm hoping the shafts are whatever you think they should be.

Fingers crossed eh?

Cheers all, looks like caustic soda is the way to go

I dont think a 9mm thru axle (skewer) like this(?):

is strong enough to be the main axle. You need a axle for your thru axle to go through...

You need a axle for your thru axle

Yo dawg

I use my neighbour's wi-fi (with their permission) and he's just fitted a directional antenna for my benefit.

The RSSI is now around -59 compared with -72 previously and Windows reports a speed of 150/180/270Mbps, up from something like 50Mbps before.

And yet pages are much slower to load, everything is slower. I've also done a speed test and up is faster than down: 2.35/4.92Mbps.

How can this be and what can be done about it?

How can this be

Contention?

Change which band channel thing the network is on to one that's empty.

Might need something like this to work that out as you need to figure what the other neighbours are on, lots of routers default is channel 1.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer

Most routers antennas work in pairs with one as up and the other down, mismatching them your computer is picking this best but it's not really able to do that up+down.

Edit - also did you upgrade your end? If he is shouting and you are whispering that helps...

It's not too different than the 9mm tube that's in there at the moment, but will be without the 5mm bits of standard qr at the ends. Looking at a hope pro 2 evo there is a centre tube and the end cap/reducers pass through the bearings and the tube to some degree making enough of an extra axle to run just a standard qr through with it all under tension. I will be knocking up a spacer tube for between the bearings that will hopefully be the right size to be under tension when all clamped up, but there won't be anything passing through the bearings and it in the same way as the hope. Try it and see I guess, I just wish the DMR nutted axle conversion kit actually existed, rather than being vapourware.

Contention?

Hmmm... my service has actually declined and I've observed this over four days and at various times of the day and night.

Hmmm... the channel is quite busy, but no more so than it was before and I'd have thought that the stronger signal I now have, would improve that situation: it has worsened it.

Are you saying that two directional antennae are needed?

No, my end hasn't been upgraded: USB dongle in a cantenna.

Hopefully this makes sense. If the router has for example 3 antennae then by upgrading one you go from having 3 connections on the outer edge of the range to having 1 connection somewhere a bit better(in the pic that's the red one).

Your adapter then goes "great, crank up the speed" and sends all 3 on the new higher speed, 2/3 of traffic goes by the other 2 antennae and now fails so will have to be resent.

Atleast that's my vague understanding of how wifi works.

I use my neighbour's wi-fi (with their permission) and he's just fitted a directional antenna for my benefit.

The RSSI is now around -59 compared with -72 previously and Windows reports a speed of 150/180/270Mbps, up from something like 50Mbps before.

And yet pages are much slower to load, everything is slower. I've also done a speed test and up is faster than down: 2.35/4.92Mbps.

How can this be and what can be done about it?

perhaps you've pissed them off a bit with your whinging, and they're just turning the tap off slightly

3rd class wifi is better than 1st class 56k modem

Wouldn't you be better off tapping a thread to the inside of your QR axle and using bolts instead?

Maybe, I'll have a go at this first now I've ordered stuff, wasn't expensive. I reckon it'll be OK if the OD of the thru axle and the ID of the bearings are a decent match.

Hopefully this makes sense.

Yes it does thanks.

Roit, my chainline is off by 2 mm, so the chain is noisey. Ordered a spacer, is a 7 mile trip OK or is it better not to risk it?

It's a fixed wheel, new (cheap) cog and chain. I'd rather not have to walk home Mondays are bad enough as they are :)

It'll be fine.

What you need is some sort of sprung device to move the chain so that it is in line with both the cog, and the front chain-ring ...

? :)

Unless you means gears...rear derailleur ;)

Tx :)

Unless you means gears...rear derailleur ;)

Wow, thats a great idea, quick patent it! ;p

(Yeah it should be absolutley fine as a srs answer)

perhaps you've pissed them off a bit with your whinging...

I was offered the use of their internet because work has been scarce this Winter and I couldn't afford to keep using my PAYG mobile dongle.

Why that is their concern, is because I maintain the family's bikes (FOC) and spend quite a lot of time on the internet price-checking spares, searching for parts, comparing new bikes and selling their old ones.

Apart from which, in the unlikely event that they are reading this thread, I'm pretty sure that (unlike you) they know the difference between a whinge and a question.