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10 kW
You as well as I know how much of a pain in the butt it is to properly replace the rear axle in your hub when it breaks or bends or when the bearings fall apart. I've noticed when you throw motors into the mix, your hub has a tendency to come loose and your wheel jiggles. Well I have an idea of how to avoid this if it doesn't already exist. This would be a new product. Female thread the outside edges of the hub to except male threaded, sealed bearings. In the middle of each bearing is a threaded hole to run the axle through. Mark the axle with a stop point on one side of it so that you don't thread it through too far or short. Put a washer and nut on each side of the axle making sure not to over tighten it causing the bearings to seize. Use a good amount of thread lock to help hold everything in place. There should be no problem with the axle shifting in its threads as long as the bearings allow the hub to spin freely over it. The hub itself would have to be a little bit bigger and beefier than the norm so that everything would fit properly. The bearings themselves need to be wider, I'd say maybe .5" to make a nice strong and stable fit --->I___I<--- like that wide. You should be able to hold the bearings in place with your fingers while you're threading the axle through; it might require 2 people, I would say don't clamp anything down on the bearings during this process. The same thing with the axle just hold it in place with your fingers while you thread the nuts on. It would probably need a set of varying size spacers to fit in the dropouts correctly depending on the needs of the cyclist. Just a thought.