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Wet or Dry decal application Clean dat is da question?
Quote from: 1mancity2 on March 23, 2011, 12:36 PMWet or Dry decal application Clean dat is da question?Was planning wet, based on everything I have read, and to be perfectly honest, this is the part of the build I have least confidence about! Help, already!
And a word of warning based on my experience last night putting the new Tuffs on. The axle sizes are too big for the front forks! By about half a mm. Tw@ts. I managed to get em in with the help of a hammer and a bit of 'muffler' but not easy.
I think he actually means the axle is just a bit to long, not in the drop outs but width ways, just push your forks a part a bit then the wheel should slot home. you may need to nut the axles down after as well, new ones are quite long unless your putting stunt nuts on
He actually means the old axles had flats to insert them into the forks and the new axles are round. Take a file to them and put two flats on there
nice! see you wasted no time getting the pink decals off (or did mark keep them as a memento?)thanks for blaming me for the elina too, I'm not claiming any responsibility but if the abuse gets too much you can always find sanctuary in the Elina threadwhat Brett said about the axles is spot on - I had NS tuffs which I had to get flats filed into, also took them to a bloke down the road to be shortened/rounded off as they were so long (fooker charged me £20 but serves me right for being desperate). easy enough to get done if you can find any metalworking-type peeps though or at a push I think you can get replacement axles with flats already in em which are a more sensible lengthnot sure about aero forks vs haro, but once the axles are in check how much play is there - mine needed a 'top-hat' style axle washer to hold em firmly in place (no pic to hand, but think key-hole shaped dropout as the ends are narrower than the bit where the axle sits) they were a bugger to find without using vertego but thanks to rad I managed to get a pair and keep my bike 100% biaggio-freeenjoy the ride!
nice! see you wasted no time getting the pink decals off (or did mark keep them as a memento?)
thanks for blaming me for the elina too, I'm not claiming any responsibility but if the abuse gets too much you can always find sanctuary in the Elina thread!
what Brett said about the axles is spot on - I had NS tuffs which I had to get flats filed into, also took them to a bloke down the road to be shortened/rounded off as they were so long (fooker charged me £20 but serves me right for being desperate). easy enough to get done if you can find any metalworking-type peeps though or at a push I think you can get replacement axles with flats already in em which are a more sensible lengthnot sure about aero forks vs haro, but once the axles are in check how much play is there - mine needed a 'top-hat' style axle washer to hold em firmly in place (no pic to hand, but think key-hole shaped dropout as the ends are narrower than the bit where the axle sits) they were a bugger to find without using vertego but thanks to rad I managed to get a pair and keep my bike 100% biaggio-free
a) making copper go different colours the hotter it got, then hitting it with a little toffee hammer to make dents in itb) burning off michael francis' fringe + eyebrows because he took too long to light the gas/air thing so we could do a)seeing as michael francis was a big rugby playing type I was lucky I didn't get a beating (can still smell the burning hair)
Quote from: Clean on March 23, 2011, 12:38 PMQuote from: 1mancity2 on March 23, 2011, 12:36 PMWet or Dry decal application Clean dat is da question?Was planning wet, based on everything I have read, and to be perfectly honest, this is the part of the build I have least confidence about! Help, already! Dremmel ...You are old enough to know it should always be done wet. I've done loads of decal application at work and slippery is the way to go, allows repositioning. Warm water with a touch of washing up liquid. Note, a TOUCH...And a word of warning based on my experience last night putting the new Tuffs on. The axle sizes are too big for the front forks! By about half a mm. Tw@ts. I managed to get em in with the help of a hammer and a bit of 'muffler' but not easy. Bet you can't wait to get started!