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Old 11-14-07, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by cascade168
Hub adjustments can be a pretty fine thing to get right, and it usually takes patience to get a feel for it. After you do a few times it gets easier, but accounting for the compression induced by the QR is the hard part. Since you are aware of this, you have already taken the big step to getting correct adjustments.

Park has a pretty good proceedure for getting it right:

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=105

Also, a jig for doing a bench adjustment with the QR installed makes this job much (!!!) easier. I am talking about the Stein Hub Axle Vise:

http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...item_id=SN-HAV

Hope this helps ;-)
This is the easiest by far and requires no extra tools. I use this method exclusively. +1
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