[CR]Re: toothed washers

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

From: <StuartMX4@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:42:38 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: toothed washers

Vastly amusing and off-topic as this discussion has become, could I return to the original query and point something out? Toothed washers were once common in many applications in general engineering. I am about to go out in a car which uses them to secure the stub axle nuts. They were the natural choice on bicycles during their early development and, bicycle builders and riders being inherently rather conservative despite lusting after the newest toys, they continued to be used long after their decline in many other applications. They have not vanished from the modern world. I bought a desk light last year and it has two in it. If you doubt our conservatism, look at the pre-WW1 Rudge cotterless cranks and ask yourself why even Rudge went back to cotter pins.

Stuart Tallack proud to be out of date in West Sussex