"John D. Slocomb" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:42:58 -0000, "Ian Field"
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"Sir Ridesalot" wrote in message
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On Sunday, November 23, 2014 1:01:14 PM UTC-5, Ian Field wrote:
"John D. Slocomb" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:06:45 -0000, "Ian Field"
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"Phil W Lee" wrote in message
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"Ian Field" considered Thu, 20 Nov
2014 20:05:04 -0000 the perfect time to write:

Just scrounged a pair of MTB wheels - but they have QD spindles.

My locking up chain isn't long enough to go through both wheels,
the
frame
and whatever I'm chaining it to.

Is there any technical reason why I couldn't swap the spindles over
from
a
pair of old damaged wheels?

Thanks.

Why not just drop the front wheel out when you lock it up, and
thread
it on the locking up chain where it will fit, next to the back
wheel?

I've seen plenty of bikes locked up that way, without any apparent
problems.

Too lazy - also involves unhooking the front brake cable so the
blocks
clear
the tyre.

I get grease on my hands often enough fixing things that go wrong.

Get another locking cable/chain and lock the frame and wheels
together
and then the whole package to the lamp post. Cable locks are cheap.
Or
a length of chain and another padlock.

Or spray paint the bike with various colors. I had a mate that did
that figuring that no one would steal anything that looked "that
bad",
and nobody did but whether that validates his theory I'm not sure :-)

The bike was scrounged on Freecycle a few years ago, I have spent money
on
it - but generally as little as I can get away with.

From time to time I get comments while locking it outside the
supermarket;
"the chains worth more than the bike isn't it?".

As yet, I have other spare wheels - so I can put off using the QR ones
untill there's no other choice.

A regular wheelnut is a loose fit on the QR axle - a QR cone wont fit
the
regular axle.

Since a regular cone will go on the QR axle, I can spin one down the
thread
and see whether it fits with the bearing.

If the fit 8is "loose" you're very likely to have trouble keeping the
cones adjusted properly.

Do try to pay attention!!!!!

The fact that a regular cone can be run down the thread of a QR axle,
allows
me to check its fit to the bearing.

The whole point of the exercise is to fit a regular axle that's right for
the cones I'm checking out.

In reality, a cone fitting the bearings is a matter of ball size and
size of the race. If, for example, both wheels have 1/8" balls and ten
balls per side, than the cones are interchangeable as far as the
bearings are concerned.

The QR hub has the right number of same size ball bearings, the loose fit
allowed me to spin the regular cone down the QR axle - the cone seems to fit
the hub OK.

At one point, I got the 2 cones mixed up - the only way I could tell them
apart; is the QR cone won't go on the regular axle.

Its all put back together with a regular spindle, the only "to do" is find a
locknut which I lost while pinching the axle from a scrap wheel.

No doubt doing the same trick on the back wheel will be a whole new
adventure!