Author Topic: What Happens To All The Skewers? (Read 3542 times)

Torslanda · « **on:** 13 December, 2018, 02:14:40 pm »

Every time I buy new wheels for the shop they invariably come with skewers. Lets face it, you'd be pretty pissed off if they didn't!

So why is it that every pair of bloody wheels that comes used from ebay, gumtree, facebook sales groups etc NEVER come with the buggers?

I can understand bolt thru jobs, that's a different story but what do people do with them? Is there somewhere a big pile of forgotten skewers? Or do they slip quietly thru wormholes in the spacetime continuum to a place where they can enjoy a uniquely skeweroid lifestyle?

Imagine the hierarchy, the Campag OE family snootily ignoring the Shimano types from down the road. The generic Quando family aspiring to the chavviness of the cheap A2Z titanium knock-offs from the wrong side of the tracks. Where do they all go?

Kim · « **Reply #1 on:** 13 December, 2018, 02:17:06 pm »

I've got a several of the external-cam type (which, as previously noted, are shit) in my bits box. I assume they've got a kettle-lead style breeding program going.

bobb · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 December, 2018, 02:26:05 pm »

They get put in a box in the garage or shed because the owner of them thinks "I might use them one day". Then 5 years later they get bunged in a giant skip at the ~~tip~~ recycling centre...

Pingu · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 December, 2018, 02:43:58 pm »

Eloped with odd socks?

T42 · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 December, 2018, 02:55:12 pm »

They're roosting on a cliff on St. Kilda.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 December, 2018, 04:53:05 pm »

They're all at the barbie.

ElyDave · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 December, 2018, 06:51:53 pm »

I left part of one on the road six weeks ago, the rest are in a captive breeding programme in my shed

Canardly · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 December, 2018, 07:11:42 pm »

They run away with coat hangars.

madcow · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:16:47 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 13 December, 2018, 07:11:42 pm

They run away with coat hangars.

Coat hangers don't run away. They hide in every fucking wardrobe in the house and multiply like crazy.

Kim · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:25:44 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 13 December, 2018, 09:16:47 pm

Quote from: Canardly on 13 December, 2018, 07:11:42 pm
They run away with coat hangars.

Coat hangers don't run away. They hide in every fucking wardrobe in the house and multiply like crazy.

Only the crappy plastic ones. The wire ones are nowhere to be found should you need to unblock a pipe or improvise an aerial for your Ford Cortina.

Torslanda · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:32:36 pm »

Unblocking sink drains usually involves the deployment of some crappy unlined brake outer with a picture eyelet screwed into the end of it.

Kim · « **Reply #11 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:42:41 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 13 December, 2018, 09:32:36 pm

Unblocking sink drains usually involves the deployment of some crappy unlined brake outer with a picture eyelet screwed into the end of it.

Noted for future reference. Variation on the galvanised brake inner with a degreaser-soaked tampon tied to the end for cleaning chain tubes.

Morat · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:47:36 pm »

They have their planet, like the biros

Canardly · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 December, 2018, 09:48:35 pm »

Re above: hugely amused to note several unblock drainage vehicles parked in local Coop car park on Boxing day.

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 December, 2018, 10:14:13 pm »

The skewers are probably thrown away by the Twats stealing the wheels, to put on Ebay!

Butterfly · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 December, 2018, 10:56:15 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 13 December, 2018, 07:11:42 pm

They run away with coat hangars.

I think I might be where coat hangers run to. Possibly also skewers.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #16 on:** 14 December, 2018, 08:27:07 am »

Quote from: Kim on 13 December, 2018, 09:25:44 pm

Quote from: madcow on 13 December, 2018, 09:16:47 pm
Quote from: Canardly on 13 December, 2018, 07:11:42 pm
They run away with coat hangars.

Coat hangers don't run away. They hide in every fucking wardrobe in the house and multiply like crazy.

Only the crappy plastic ones. The wire ones are nowhere to be found should you need to unblock a pipe or improvise an aerial for your Ford Cortina.

That's because the Cortinas have got tired of the cold and run away for a beach holiday. In Capri.

essexian · « **Reply #17 on:** 14 December, 2018, 08:48:54 am »

There is one sitting on my desk at this very moment....I don't seem to have problems finding them, its finding one with the two springs still included I find hard! Where do the springs (and other small objects) go?

ElyDave · « **Reply #18 on:** 14 December, 2018, 08:51:45 am »

Quote from: essexian on 14 December, 2018, 08:48:54 am

There is one sitting on my desk at this very moment....I don't seem to have problems finding them, its finding one with the two springs still included I find hard! Where do the springs (and other small objects) go?

To use a noun as a verb - they pingfuckit as far away as they can

T42 · « **Reply #19 on:** 14 December, 2018, 11:48:48 am »

Just how far can they pingfuckit? I have a few in my workshop with no obvious origin.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #20 on:** 14 December, 2018, 12:51:16 pm »

A long way but Ely to Alsace is probably pushing it a bit.

T42 · « **Reply #21 on:** 14 December, 2018, 01:27:53 pm »

Looks like some of my skewers have buggered off to St. Kilda and left their springs behind, then.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22 on:** 14 December, 2018, 01:33:03 pm »

St Kilda won't help you, you need St Anthony (patron saint of lost things).

ElyDave · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 December, 2018, 01:40:51 pm »

I thought that was St Jude? Patron Saint of Lost Causes, or at least that's what ~~James Bond~~ Sean Canary says in The Untouchables

rafletcher · « **Reply #24 on:** 14 December, 2018, 01:54:18 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 14 December, 2018, 01:40:51 pm

I thought that was St Jude? Patron Saint of Lost Causes, or at least that's what ~~James Bond~~ Sean Canary says in The Untouchables

Both St Anthony and St Jude appear to patron saint of lost causes.