Disc screws
- Thread starter Paul Marx
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Laverdian
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- Location
- Brigadoon, Scotland
Paul, from memory M6x14 Grade 12.9, you’d probably get away with Grade 8.8.
Edit - incorrect length given in original response.
Edit - incorrect length given in original response.
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Thanks Ian.
I must have 6x15 in there and it's a bit too much. Wheel positioning is pretty critical in the forks, not to mention aesthetics.
Paul
Laverdian
Senior member
- Location
- Brigadoon, Scotland
Paul, ignore that.
The set screws are M6x14mm 12.9. it’s not a common size, 12mm or 16mm is standard lengths.
Okay.Paul, ignore that.
it’s not a common size, 12mm or 16mm is standard lengths.
I'll have a look,
Paul
Jo
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- Location
- Cologne, NRW Germany
Paul, I used M6x12 8.8 hex with Schnorr washers!
CLEMTOG
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just get your vernier out and measure the depth, the disc and the washer, allow half a mill or a whole mill so as not to bottom, stainless bolts?????
I have used them for years, but now I am having my doubts, I torque them up correctly and lock them both with Loctite and Cor Dees (RIP) suplied lock washers, but on dismantling they havent seemed "tight" leading me to think that the stainless "gives" over time, the bolt heads didnt move, since they were trapped by the lockwashers,.
comments if qualified to do so, that rules out Hamish and Nickdav7 plus a lot of others.
CLEM
I have used them for years, but now I am having my doubts, I torque them up correctly and lock them both with Loctite and Cor Dees (RIP) suplied lock washers, but on dismantling they havent seemed "tight" leading me to think that the stainless "gives" over time, the bolt heads didnt move, since they were trapped by the lockwashers,.
comments if qualified to do so, that rules out Hamish and Nickdav7 plus a lot of others.
CLEM
ordered 6 x 14, 8.8 zinc steel.
I'll use a washer and Loctite.
Clem, I've used stainless screws to mount the disc carriers to the hub on my SF2 since 1992. No probs.
I can't measure it up Clem since the discs are mounted on the carrier and wheel and the wheel in the forks and I do not want to start again.
They were like that, just a bit long before the bike burnt but as you know centering the wheel is crucial and yesterday I shaved a bit of alloy off the rh slider whilst turning the wheel before getting it all right. The screws are a couple of mm too long.
Paul
I'll use a washer and Loctite.
Clem, I've used stainless screws to mount the disc carriers to the hub on my SF2 since 1992. No probs.
I can't measure it up Clem since the discs are mounted on the carrier and wheel and the wheel in the forks and I do not want to start again.
They were like that, just a bit long before the bike burnt but as you know centering the wheel is crucial and yesterday I shaved a bit of alloy off the rh slider whilst turning the wheel before getting it all right. The screws are a couple of mm too long.
Paul
CLEMTOG
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getting the wheel bolted up to the left side fork leg is critical, (assumes callipers in front of forks) the right side fork leg "floats" on the spindle and is then clamped last of all, by the two pich bolts, do this with the right calliper unbolted and tied up away from its usual position.The two pinch bolts on the left fork left dont have much of a function at all, a bit of security if the spindle nut falls off perhaps (mine is always wired)
CLEM
CLEM