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This might only be relevant to Shimano coasters, but a little tip I picked up accidently after the bearings cage in my Shimano E110 coaster hub disintegrated on Kentish Town high st and sent bits of twisted metal into the workings...
Coasters are supposed to have a little bit of play in them so the wheel wobbles only very slightly on the axle. This is because you can only tighten the cone down so far on the drive side before it hits the bearings cage and starts to bind. If you lose the cage and repack the hub with more bearings you can tighten that cone down to remove the play completely and have a smoother spinning wheel altogether. If I wasn't sick of putting this thing together so many times since I got it I'd probably do the same to the bearing on the other side. As it is, it ain't broke, so I'm not fixing.