Wanted: HED 3 front track axle kit

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TL;DR - BUY IT FROM HED

I had an auto search on eBay for about 18 months - no luck for cheap ones.

HED sells them for £30 + £3.95 postage.

Wiggle used to sell them at 10% off so £27 with free postage so I required a price match from HED which subsequently decided to stop providing Wiggle with them as they were effectively undercutting them.

CSB

And while you are at it, do the right thing and get some ceramic bearing when you get one.

Haha, cheers for the info man!

I was looking for one of these. If you already have a HED 3 with a qr axle you can just swap the axle for a solid one and add some track nuts. You dont need the whole kit. Axles and nuts are readily available.

If you already have a HED 3 with a qr axle you can just swap the axle for a solid one and add some track nuts.

Depends which version of the road axle you have. The current aluminium axle can't just be swapped for a generic M9×1.0 axle. You can just use an Allen key skewer for track use. With the old steel hollow axle, you can tap it and use M6 screws and cup washers, as seen on upsidedown's TT bike.

Pretty sure all pre 06 models you can. Which is what that converter pictured is for. Seems a lot of effort taping an axle and using M6 bolts.

Very little effort, a couple of people on here have done their older H3s, and I've done loads of other wheels. Make sure you buy screws, not bolts, as they go into the axle almost up to the head.

You definitely dont want screws.

You definitely have no idea what you're talking about.

A bolt has a plain shank ending in a short threaded section. A screw has the shank threaded all the way to the head.

A bolt can be threaded all the way.

Whereupon it becomes a screw :-)

Yeah a screw is what you want. Fair enough. A bolt and a screw can be exactly the same thing it depends what you're putting it into that decides what it is. In this case it would be called a screw not a bolt. Weird. No logic in that.

It doesn't have to have an underlying logic, it's just a taxonomical convention.

If you put a short screw through a plain hole in thin material and fasten it on the other side with a nut, does it become a bolt? :-)

Yeah, that'd be a bolt as your using a nut. But what differentiates the thread in a nut from a thread in a component to change a bolt to a screw?

Mind = Blown

*Sad thing is, I'm an engineer.

The differentiator is that you tighten a screw by turning the screw head, but you tighten a nut and bolt by holding the bolt head and turning the nut.

Therefore, the difference is based on a universal frame of reference, which Einstein showed to be a fallacy. In a relativistic universe, bolts and screws are the same thing :-)

ahahaha.

This is where I bring in a spring washer to place between the sheet material and the nut so that the nut does not have to held when tightening the bolt. Do we have a bolt or a screw now?

A spring washer won't do, they prevent loosening but can't resist tightening torque. What you need is a cage nut, rivnut or nutsert.