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Unread 30-10-2002, 17:34
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Originally posted by wysiswyg

What did you use to attach the wheel to the shaft??? I hope you didn't only use set screws because thats proabably why the wheel came off.
Not to get too off-track, but we had this problem with our Skyway wheels all year.

Those 8’ skyway wheels are pretty good pneumatic wheels that severed us well, however they had some serious defects.

When you want to re-treed them, you had to take off the wheel, unscrew the screws, and separate the axle and the hub. However when you do this, you significantly weaken the bond between the axle and the hub. We quickly found out that the axle slips out of the hub, and our wheel falls off. The only solution we found, that worked pretty good, was to put set-screws right through the axle and the hub. The wheels we had on @ Bash at the Beach were used, and extremely prone to this problem.

I recommend anyone if you plan to use the 8 inch skyway wheel (which many teams did), to fill the inside with some kind of epoxy glue so you have a sold wheel and axle.