Wheel spacer question

[ted johnson]

Teddy, your comments help a lot.

It does seem like you'd want to have the wheel and tire assembly on an axle before final tightening of the wheel hardware to avoid any potential misalignment.  I do that now even without spacers.

Ciao!

Jim, depends on the wheel. The CT's have a couple of machined-in shortie dowels that engage corresponding holes in the other half. If you drill the Will Roger's spacers carefully, all will line up There's zero slop there. On the Go Powers and Azusas, it's a doggone good idea to do as you suggest. I keep a 6" chunk of axle here to clamp in the vise to tighten wheels. I do a version of that when I bolt brake discs to the hubs. I put the hub on my test axle and gently tighter the clamp bolt, then bolt the disc to the hub. Works with sprockets, too. Another align trick: I keep a length of chain to wrap around axle sprockets before I tighten the bolts that hold sprocket to hub. I like the easy life! Ted