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I just bought a set of 27' wheels from here to replace some broken ones I received with a crappy ebay frame. But I have a few questions.
When I first tried to install the front wheel it didn't fit (the rear was perfect). The hub of the new wheels seems a lot wider than the original wheels. I consulted sheldon and after a bit of fiddling around, removed the spacers between the bearing cone and the locknut. The first question is whether this is OK? The locknut is now in direct contact with the cone, and I want to make sure I'm not doing something stupid by not having any washers in there.
This sorted out the issue of getting the wheels into the fork (although I now need to find a cone spanner to tighten it all up properly again), but when I installed the QR skewer and tightened it, I realised that the axel now extends slightly beyond the dropouts meaning that even when tightened to the max, the skewer does not get a purchase on dropouts. I tied using the conventional nuts that were on the original (broken) wheel but they were fractionally to small, and the track nuts from another spare wheel and these were too big. Presumably I need a new axle?
Am I missing something? I know rear spacing varies a bit between frames of different ages, but I had naively thought that front spacing was pretty consistent.