"AMuzi" wrote in message
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On 11/18/2014 12:24 PM, Ian Field wrote:


"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message
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On 11/17/2014 4:53 PM, AMuzi wrote:

Most fronts are 13mm flats.

As with everything, some are not. Notably, some current
low-end cones[1]
are famously somewhere between 13mm and 14mm. It's
annoying in front but
a real pain on the just bigger than 15mm but not 16mm rears.

[1] the ones with four flats. Yes, two chances to be off
spec and they
fail twice.

! That's exactly was what was on that Toys-R-Us bike I
fixed the other week! What the hell? Is China
instituting another measurement system??

They're copying Japanese steel - which is actually soft
cheese in disguise.

Maybe at one time; in the 1950s, pressed steel toys from Japan were indeed
formed from recycled crap.

Pretty much everything everywhere is made from recycled crap.

Metal was top of the list long before the recycling craze took hold.