Nope, just pushed them to drink. Or maybe that's just me.

Ned

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Playing with the spare set of hubs, housings, and stub axles in the mess I
> call my workshop, I notice the radial play of the hub on the stub axle
> diminishes as the hub fetches up against the ramps at the end of the
> grooves in the stub axle.
>
> I suppose I should assemble a unit minus the bearing housing and see if
> the hub comes up onto the ramps. But I can't be bothered pressing on, then
> off, the bearings.
>
> Hey Stuart, did I push more members to Facebook?
>
> :-)
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> > On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:58 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> >
> > At 01:02 PM 6/3/2015, OlRivrRat wrote:
> >>        AnyOne care to discuss just what might cause the Spacer to
> >> Wear Shorter ~
> >
> > Whatever moves against another surface will wear, evenly or with one
> > sacrificial to the other (paradixically, the harder surface tends to
> > sacrifice to the softer).  I  don't see the spacer as being in any
> > particular danger unless its composition is such that it moves and
> > wears preferentially to everything else in the assembly, which could
> > be.  Even so, I think that the splines getting beaten up on axle and
> > hub will be the major issue, not longitudinal wear.  Ideally those
> > splines would exist only as a safety backup, but whether or not that
> > applies here impact loading on them has to be kept to a minimum so
> > they don't beat each other out of shape. leading to an accelerating
> > cycle of increasing clearances leading to increased impact loads.  It
> > would be simpler if they were loaded only in one direction, but they
> > have to handle decelerating and reverse-gear loads as well.
> >
> > Yours,
> > David
>