>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:54:38 -0500
>From: Paul Tegler <ptegler@cablespeed.com>
>Subject: Re: Fw: UNDO torque ;-) Plywood Spec
>KISS ... everyone is afraid of either bending spokes with
>a misplaced hammer blow, or damaging their spinners.
>Keep a short (10"-18") piece of 2"x4" in the trunk.
>lay the edge/end of the 2x4 on the spinner and hit the 2x4
>with
>the hammer. You can either do it on end or on the edge.
>Paul Tegler ptegler@cablespeed.com
>www.teglerizer.com
Excellent advice, Paul. What I did, was buy a cheap, plastic coated
deadblow hammer; the kind filled with lead pellets, and toss it into the
boot. With that, I tighten as much as I like, with no damage to the knock
offs, although my knock offs were kind of beat up by the PO.
Fred Pixley
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