Nah, I’m not that type of person 
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Tom at Radlands is the first thing anyone should think about when axle slip comes up.
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Yes axle skip affected pretty much every truck iirc? Was mildly annoying.
Does anyone remember those trackers that had floating axles as a ‘feature’ that exactly no one asked for
Yes, apologies for the self quote,
Also, I have no idea how folks aren’t even aware of slipping axles, I thought everyone had more than likely experienced it. There seemed to be an epidemic of it in the early 90’s, everybody was having to knock their axles through. I remember every set of Venture Featherlites I had did it. I’ve not had a set of trucks with slipping axles for a good while now but it’s obviously still a problem. One side effect of the slipping axle was by knocking your axle back on the curb or whatever you damaged the end of the axle making it a bitch to get the nut off, or more importantly getting the nut back on. I had to take a file to them or even hacksaw the end couple of threads off more than once in order to rethread them. Pre discovering the rethreading tool I just used to file the end, primitively carve a new thread with a hacksaw and jam the nut on backwards. The nut generally went on crooked but held for a bit before new trucks were in order.
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Can someone make a vote thingy please? I’m interested to know now 
- I’ve had axle slip
- Never experienced
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That’s when I last remember having axle slip. So I answered yes to the vote. But I thought it was no longer a thing with modern trucks.
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it was the bane of my first year of skating as I had Deadbolt trucks. After every trick, smash the wheel nut on a curb or wall.
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I’ve never had it but know people that did but not in like 10 years or so. Didn’t indy and others fix it by using a sort of flattened bent axle that won’t slide through? I thought I saw that somewhere
The flattened bent axle is in the new Grind King trucks. I have some but most people on here find them ugly. Mine are silver but to be fair, they also come in a horrible shade of orange.
I’m also thinking bearing spacers have a role to play here. If you don’t use spacers you can’t lock your wheel nuts down tight, so there will be a little play and somewhere for a loose axle to go. If you have spacers and the nuts are locked tight, there’s nowhere for the axle to go.
funnily enough when googling this axle slip thing one of the cures was bearing spacers as it means your wheel shouldn’t be able to lock up. i’ve had bearing spacers for as long as i remember so perhaps that’s why i’ve never noticed it
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Yes - you always have to have a bit of looseness without spacers, because if you over-tighten the nuts your bearings seize up. But with spacers you can crank the nuts right down and your wheels still spin freely. There is literally no way your axle can slip because it has nowhere to go.
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Waaaait nah I always have a bit of movement on the bolts. Not sure why. I have just always done that. Do we need another vote?
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Also need a ‘do your spacers match the with of your wheel core’ vote. Because mine don’t (Bones Swiss, spacers and Spit Classic). I expect Bones bearing spacers match the core width of Bones wheels though.
The above means you can’t crank them down - could add a speed ring against the spacer though…
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mate what 
Spacer that comes with Swiss bearings is narrower than a F4 Classic wheel core. Or centre of the bearing seat. So cranking them fucks the bearings.
This. I know what the intended purpose of spacers is but in my case, (F4s and Swiss), all the spacers do is add an unnecessary rattle.
I don’t know if bearings are slightly different but I used to use Bones Reds with Spitfire F4 and I couldn’t tighten them down without locking up. Now I use Bronson G3, with the same old spacers, and they’re perfect, both with Spitfires and with Dragons
Just grabbed my daughter’s set up. Bronson G2 (inc spacers that came with) and Bones STF wheels and they can be tightened down like you say. Maybe the bronson ones are wider.
I’ll have a look at the spacer widths later as I have to do some messing with my set up for photos.
Can’t believe I’m doing this. More interesting than work, which says a lot…
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