Originally Posted by JW51
1) Would it be good to stick the yoke in the freezer and warm up the sleeve a bit? Make it slide on a bit easier and perhaps more evenly?

2) Anyone add loctite to this job?

Or do I just tap the thing on room temp and dry and forget about it?

Chilling the yoke and heating the sleeve would not help because the sleeve is so thin, it would almost immediately conduct the cold from the yoke, which has allot more mass.


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