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Damned, just found this thread after a quick search on the forum.
The geometry of my beater (a converted old MTB with 700c wheel) make it quite though to skid with... I have to exagerate puting my weigh at the front of the bike and really have to push hard on the pedals... Comparatively, with a similar gear ratio on my other fixed bike (converted old Holdsworth touring) I can skid quite easily...
Anyway, yesterday, I was trying to skid with my beater and the sprocket started to unscrew. When I arrived home, I took the wheel out to re-tight both the sprocket and the lockring but I destroyed the thread of the lockring. Because it is not the first time it had happened, I really wanted to secure it for good... SHIT! And my hub is not fixed fixed...
Because it's my beater, I don't want to buy a new hub... Is there really nothing to do to that? Would loctite help? I don't mind "killing" the hub by "melting" the sprocket onto it, drilling thru it or whatever, for the lifetime of the sprocket (which is new), and then when it's dead I would change the hub, but for the moment I'd like not to...
(Maybe drilling and fit a spindle in 3 points arround like this? anybody tried?)
Szia
Loic