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rubber pads between bearings and forks

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  1. hi there,

    i just upgraded from a no-name ebay-purchased uni to a qu-ax luxus. my
    old uni came with thin rubber pads to place between the bearings and
    the forks, but the qu-ax doesn't.

    since i just happen to have a spare sheet of thin rubber lying around,
    would it be worth cutting some pads from this and putting them in?
    perhaps this would make it easier to get a tight fit without stressing
    the bearings?

    my engineer flatmate suggests the rubber is only in the old uni to make
    up for crappy manufacturing tolerances, which seems plausible, even if
    the idea of fastening two smooth bits of metal together seems a bit
    weird to me.

    pix.

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  2. With all my unis, and all the others I have seen, you dont need the
    rubber to cover your bearings. They hold up fine being metal to metal.

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  3. Pix, I'd say your flatmate is right, since only my cheapest uni came
    with the rubber bits.

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