One evening in Cleveland, I started tapping a stem bolt with a hammer for a friend. He turned and asked, "Is use of the Swedish micrometer common for bike adjustments?"
harvey
An observation:
Anyone who would design and manufacture a hub as beautiful as the Maxi-Car, but require you to take a hammer to one side to adjust the bearings, is someone I would not hire to design me much of anything else. wouldn't matter if they were in California, Japan, Italy, or Pluto. Furthermore, once you loosen things up with a *hammer* (that is just too funny you know? doesn't work? Just take a hammer to that puppy!), you have to tighten the locknut very carefully or you'll have to take a hammer to it again, and start all over. This seems crazy to me, but, hey, what do I know?
Granted, most things that use bearings also use press-fitting parts with the bearings, but I still prefer the more common screw-on cup/cone arrangement for ease of use and maintainence.
All this said, I got both hubs spinning beautifully using the "hammer the axle" method, and for that I am grateful. Thanks to Jan and Paul for their help.
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles