Alloy or steel lockring on an alloy freehub?
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So, good old blingy Crank Brothers "quality" alloy freehub getting warranty replaced after the threads the lockring screws into cracked. Soft alloy being part of the problem I'm betting.
The other part of the problem I feel is to do with the fit of a 10sp SRAM cassette on the hub resulting in shallow thread depth on the freehub for the lockring to bite into and at some point it came loose (it was fully torqued to spec) and shred/cracked the threads.
Solution to that I'm thinking is to get a deeper lockring. Would it be better to use an alloy lockring on alloy freehub threads rather than the harder steel which could eat into the freehub (like the steel cassette does to the splines!)?
The other part of the problem I feel is to do with the fit of a 10sp SRAM cassette on the hub resulting in shallow thread depth on the freehub for the lockring to bite into and at some point it came loose (it was fully torqued to spec) and shred/cracked the threads.
Solution to that I'm thinking is to get a deeper lockring. Would it be better to use an alloy lockring on alloy freehub threads rather than the harder steel which could eat into the freehub (like the steel cassette does to the splines!)?
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