[Shop-talk] Tabbed axle washers

[Chris Kantarjiev]

Karl Vacek wrote:
> 
> Ummm, yeah, sure......
> 
> I'll do this to take off a thousandth or two on a thrust washer, and in 
> fact that's how I turned decent flat washers into relatively 
> true-thickness shims for the bearings, but to take off .040" or so ??
> 
> Maybe I'm just lazy  ;-)

You can take off more with coarse grit and then finish with fine. It 
will go rather quickly. You won't get uniform thickness with a file, 
mostly because there's no good way to hold such a thin piece flat and 
square to draw-file it.

But I agree with the poster who suggested using a hardened washer w/o 
the tab, if that's easier.