Re: Care and feeding of my XL
Paul Halter (psoft!paulha@uunet.uu.net)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:02:59 +0600
Doug Borngasser wrote:
>There were earlier post about some of the common problems people have with
>their unicycles. The biggest problem I remember was with the cranks coming
>loose. I have started having this problem as well. When riding with
>cotterless cranks it is important not to ride with them loose since you
>will destroy your axel. I've started keeping my 14mm socket wrench around
>to tighten things up as soon as they come loose and as soon as I notice a
>problem, I stop ridining until I can tighten it up again.
>If anyone has a good idea for keeping things tight without basically
>welding on the crank I'd love to find a better way than carrying my wrench
>everywhere.
Ok, here's my low-tech solution: I had an ever-worsening problem with a
loosening crank nut on my XL. I tried a thread locking compound which held
the nut in place for about 3 days. So I cleaned up the threads and used a
somewhat stronger method: super glue. A good coat on the inside of the nut
has held up very well. Yes, you can still get the nut back off again if you
need to, but it seems to keep it from coming loose on its own. It's been
several months since I've had to reglue the nut. YMMV.
Paul Halter