How To Cut Down A Randal

[Gage]

Notice in the 8th pic you can see where he creats his mad bushings!

[speshlspeclsteak]

could I do this and add a comp 2 axle to make my 180s or my forces wider?

[jclawson]

So is there an actual performance reason for narrowing the trucks?

[RileyC]

i comp-letely messed up my trucks doing this...
my randall 150's are now useless.
everything was fine until i was trying to hammer the axle back in and halfway through the threads of my axle were getting smashed closer to each other and now the axle is barely comping out of one end and the threads are messed up and i cant even hammer it back out to start over! The axle wont budge! If i even get the axle out it is completely destroyed!

[Xgecko]

go to the hardware store and get a die to re-cut the thread it's not difficult. Next time you hammer an axle into a hanger use a punch or use a sacrificial nut to protect the end of the axle

[BigDaddy@TactisSkates]

Originally Posted by jclawson

So is there an actual performance reason for narrowing the trucks?

Yes they are much better for running taller wheels on GS and Hybrid race courses

But if you are fifteen and don't have access to a proper machine shop... Just buy the 125s and say all good

Dano

[$tauberC]

..that poor little randal

[Richy Carrasco]

We have cut down Randalls at Sk8kings, They will be up on our web site soon! We also have stock 125 These work well Derad for back trucks with proper baseplates.

[Parallel Man]

I just read Zak's post and it's all good.

One suggestion, though.

Get some like-threaded hex nuts and screw them onto the axle before any pounding with a hammer. This will protect the threads from getting compressed and ruining the axle. If any distortion of the threading happens from the hammering, screwing the nuts OFF will make sure the threads are back to their normal shape.

It doesn't always happen but it's bad news the one time it DOES happen and it's always better to err on the side of caution when dealing with irreplaceable metal parts.

[Richy Carrasco]

The new Randalls have molded in axels so we let the machine shop do em up for us! 'Oi!

[Parallel Man]

If an axle is molded into the hanger then do the tools have to be available to DRILL it out? A clean, straight 8mm hole through the hanger?

[breamo]

We have some old pressed in axle hangers lying around. If interested send an email.

[prankshizzel187]

Originally Posted by Xgecko

sacrificial nut

X-D for some reason i thought that was hilarious

[doliferuk]

Originally Posted by SteveC

Sweet! I might just do this to an old set of 180's soon.
Or my crooked C7 hangers...

I wonder if anyone's done this and added a ball joint :-k

What is a ball joint