Rear dropout alignment screws
I commute on an old Carlton Courier mixte frame.
I have fitted new brakes but with the rear wheel at the back of the dropout the pads are touching the rubber of the tyre.
So I have moved the rear wheel forward, and the brakes are fine.
I have only got one old rear dropout alignment screw (with the spring).
My question is: if I do not use the rear dropout alignment screw is the wheel at risk of coming out of alignment? It will be held only by the quick release, which makes me worry that a pothole or similar will throw off alignment.
Should I just use one of the screws as better than nothing? Or will the quick release hold the wheel if pretty tight?
I have fitted new brakes but with the rear wheel at the back of the dropout the pads are touching the rubber of the tyre.
So I have moved the rear wheel forward, and the brakes are fine.
I have only got one old rear dropout alignment screw (with the spring).
My question is: if I do not use the rear dropout alignment screw is the wheel at risk of coming out of alignment? It will be held only by the quick release, which makes me worry that a pothole or similar will throw off alignment.
Should I just use one of the screws as better than nothing? Or will the quick release hold the wheel if pretty tight?
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Thanks.
As it happens I found another screw, and plundered a spring from an old biro.
I wonder how good these screws are: originally for racing, but if you hit a pothole commuting then probably bend, I would have thought.
Anyway I will give them a go, and the brakes now align well.0
