Part of the kit for attaching my back wheels to my rear axle are these very nice anodised aluminium hubs, which I was first shown by Jim Tanner, an engineer and celebrated cyclekart builder, who has come up with some adapter plates which fit these three-point hubs to the four screw arrangement on the Pit Bike wheels . The hubs come with studs fixed in them, but these need removing, to be replaced with cap head screws. Removing them takes a bit of technique. They are tightly screwed in with something like locktite, which resists their removal.
I didn't want to gnarl up my hubs in a vice, so I clamped them with wood screwed to a bench, providing some leverage so that the hubs wouldn't turn.
I then screwed two nuts on to a stud and locked them in place by tightening them against each other.
This method provides something for a spanner to work against so that
the stud will screw out of the hub.
To soften the locktite-like-stuff, I applied heat with a hot-air gun. This was only unnecessary with one of the studs, and did the trick with all the others. I went gently with this because it is difficult to know how much heat will be needed and you don't want to affect the component.
There's a very satisfying feeling as the screw starts to yield then finally comes out!
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