pw_pw_la
Senior Retro Guru
Has anyone ever taken one apart in order to replace the axle? You see I bought a road version on eBay on the cheap, assuming it would simply be a case of unscrewing both sides from the spindle, but of course... it seems like the side with the actual QR on is bonded somehow to the axle itself?
Thus thwarting my attempt to switch the actual QR parts over to another axle I had lying around.
I've read of plenty of people doing this on here before, with various other skewers, so wrongly assumed it'd be easy/fine with the AC kind!
The QR handle itself passes through the main body, and is secured on the other side by one of those little pin clamp things. What's the right word for these!? And what kind of tool releases them!?! I've never really had to mess with one before!
You can just about make out what I mean here (most clearly on the left hand side of the middle one):
Anyway, assuming I can take all that apart, does anyone know if doing so will somehow allow me to unscrew the end from the threaded axle? You can sort of see where it joins here, and how it appears to be bonded rather than threaded:
If it is bonded, I assume I've just wasted $20?
Which is fine, because it was an experiment to see if I could figure out a way to gather an AC QR set on the cheap anyway!
Unless someone here knows, or has any other suggestions of ways I could try to release the end from the axle...
Thus thwarting my attempt to switch the actual QR parts over to another axle I had lying around.
I've read of plenty of people doing this on here before, with various other skewers, so wrongly assumed it'd be easy/fine with the AC kind!
The QR handle itself passes through the main body, and is secured on the other side by one of those little pin clamp things. What's the right word for these!? And what kind of tool releases them!?! I've never really had to mess with one before!
You can just about make out what I mean here (most clearly on the left hand side of the middle one):
Anyway, assuming I can take all that apart, does anyone know if doing so will somehow allow me to unscrew the end from the threaded axle? You can sort of see where it joins here, and how it appears to be bonded rather than threaded:
If it is bonded, I assume I've just wasted $20?
Which is fine, because it was an experiment to see if I could figure out a way to gather an AC QR set on the cheap anyway!
Unless someone here knows, or has any other suggestions of ways I could try to release the end from the axle...
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