Spinners -- On for years..

[SantaFe66]

Just a suggestion for those worried about snagging yourself on the ends of the cut safety wire..............

The accepted aircraft mechanic and race bike mechanic method is to grip the ends of the cut and twisted wire and turn it back on itself in a small loop to the inside. This would leave the ends turned in and only a smooth loop to worry about. No snags. The tapered ends of the safety wire pliers help make this work.

I think the method of twisting the wire from the wheel side to make the ends less visible is the wrong way. You have to pull and twist to make the wire tight and that's much easier to do correctly when pulling from the spinner. I also favor drilling a hole in your wheel instead of encircling a spoke. That way you can properly chamfer the hole and prevent the harder stainless wire from gouging the softer aluminum wheel spoke.

The Cobra Country description is right on about the correct tightness of the twist. 6 turns per inch would be fine for our use with the .032 SS wire.

Paul

[JBo]

The Autokraft AC's (AK's ) came with holes in the compomotive wheel webs for the safety wire and this was for a "nut" that was also safety wired to keep the wheel on. The removal/apply tool was basically a box wrench of about 2 1/2 to 3" with about an 18" handle. You may remember that knockon's were sort of outlawed at one time as dangerous to someone ;pedestrians perhaps. I have added a couple holes in each wheel
as i tend to do two "ears" per wheel (having had one come off (not wired)years ago. I have seen a bit of a twist put in the twisted safety wire with needle nose pliers to put a very small 90 degree kink in the long portion of the wire.