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i have a couple of questions about threaded hubs while your on the subject (i didnt want to start a new thread for it)
ive been thinking about suicide hubs, and how to make them not so suicidal
me being a tight ass, like to reuse parts and just like to solve problems has had me thinking about this for some time, ive come up with a idea about how to over come the problems of running a suicide hub
one way i was thinking is to go to a fasteners and fixing warehouse and see if they have a big enough internal toothed lock washer, i was thinking 2 or 3 tooth lock washers so i dont take away to much material from the hub, the problems i can think of is the teeth on the washer would have to fit very snug in the slots cut out of the hub because if i tighten the lock-ring (shimano bb lock-ring fits right on)to tight the 2 halves could squash together and strip the threads, and the teeth would have to be long enough to go through the hub so i could file them flush with the slots inside of the hub
the slots would only be on the very edge of the threads (just wide enough to get the whole lock-ring on) and i would have to have a spacer between to cog and lock-ring
its a cup and cone type hub so i would need to get some rubber cup and cone seals to stop dirt getting in as its just has a dust seal at the moment
has any one ever done anything remotely similar to this
i will give it a go when i have some spare time(or when i can be bothered tbh) but im just looking for some feed back other ideas and input