It's wet and raining and I've got no work to do today... Time for some DIY!!
I finally got fed up with the way the hub on my Agattu keeps on slipping time and again. The general advice is to do the nuts up white-knuckle tight and I always do, but sooner or later, it always seems to slip and I end up limping home with the tyre rubbing against the mudguard.
I finally got fed up with the situation and thought I'd do something to rectify the situation. I'd seen a part similar to this mentioned on the forums before, so I thought I'd have a poke around the shed and see what I could come up with.
An old PC power supply donated some metal...
I sawed the head off a bolt and welded it to a bit of steel, then drilled a big hole for the axle to go through and elongated it with my dremmel. After I got it to fit over the axle OK, I chopped off the extra bit at the end.
Next I made a little clip/bracket thing to go over the frame. This was nothing fancy.. it was just cut with the dremmel and then hit with a hammer
Finally, I bent the clip in the middle by squeezing the ends with a pair of pliers...
I finally got fed up with the way the hub on my Agattu keeps on slipping time and again. The general advice is to do the nuts up white-knuckle tight and I always do, but sooner or later, it always seems to slip and I end up limping home with the tyre rubbing against the mudguard.
I finally got fed up with the situation and thought I'd do something to rectify the situation. I'd seen a part similar to this mentioned on the forums before, so I thought I'd have a poke around the shed and see what I could come up with.
An old PC power supply donated some metal...
I sawed the head off a bolt and welded it to a bit of steel, then drilled a big hole for the axle to go through and elongated it with my dremmel. After I got it to fit over the axle OK, I chopped off the extra bit at the end.
Next I made a little clip/bracket thing to go over the frame. This was nothing fancy.. it was just cut with the dremmel and then hit with a hammer
Finally, I bent the clip in the middle by squeezing the ends with a pair of pliers...