

| Subject: | Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp |
| From: | David Beierl |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:27:11 -0400 |
>Nope. You have to be able to turn the nut by hand to set it, then lock it in. That's for some value of "have to" and "by hand" - what I really should have said is that you have to be able to make adjustments of tiny fractions of a turn, without stick-slip problems and with low enough forces that there's no danger when running up the nut of overtightening and causing Brinelling* of the bearing races. I wouldn't think a self-locking nut of that size would be a good candidate. *having the balls or rollers indent the races, named after the Brinell test for hardness. The reason ball bearings aren't good for heavy shock loads, since they have only point or very short line contact with the races. Yrs, d
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