Author Topic: Seized Thru Axle  (Read 9317 times)

Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #25 on: 07 November, 2018, 04:37:43 pm »
If, as you think, the customer has had someone else already have a go at this and fail, he has been less than honest with you and to my mind you now owe him nothing over that you have already done.
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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #26 on: 07 November, 2018, 04:52:26 pm »
No thanks. The frame is plastic...

I did read that before, but the insert at the dropout isn't.
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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #27 on: 07 November, 2018, 09:18:39 pm »
The axle is Ali? The frame plastic. How about caustic. As used for seized seat tubes?

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #28 on: 07 November, 2018, 09:24:52 pm »
Sorry but no. It's taking up workshop space.

If I can't cut the axle tomorrow it's going back.
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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #29 on: 10 November, 2018, 09:23:01 am »
It's out. With a combination of big 17mm spanner and a pair of waterpump pliers and the assistance of the motorbike mechanic next door...

We... erm... sort of 'undid' the handle off the end of the skewer. It won't be going back! All I need now are the bits to mend it.

VELOMANCER

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #30 on: 10 November, 2018, 11:38:25 am »
Yay!
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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #31 on: 10 November, 2018, 01:07:29 pm »
Just ordered all the bits to mend it.

Still can't help feeling I'm going to end up stuck with it...
VELOMANCER

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #32 on: 10 November, 2018, 02:27:03 pm »
Is it worth checking the inside of the hub?  If there's a bit of corrosion in there, then no matter how carefully you re-assemble it and grease it, that's going to cause similar problems in the future.
Not sure what you can do if you do discover corrosion, except for replacing the hub.

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #33 on: 10 November, 2018, 02:43:32 pm »
Getting a complete hub. Going to replace everything except the shell
VELOMANCER

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #34 on: 15 November, 2018, 05:56:54 pm »
Had a DT Swiss Thru axle seize in the hub last year.
Took it to LBS where hammering etc was unsuccessful.
Old school experienced mechanic and various methods of persuasion were tried and failed.
In the end the axle (flange?) was ground off.
DT supplied a new component free of charge.
often lost.

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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #35 on: 15 November, 2018, 06:04:07 pm »
Not such a good thing for the rider with flexible maintenance standards, then - and, unlike a stuck seatpost, you're going to have to face it when you get a puncture or wear out a tyre.
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Re: Seized Thru Axle
« Reply #36 on: 15 November, 2018, 06:49:06 pm »
I've not had a badly seized through-axle yet, but I can imagine that it is as least as bad as other forms of seizure, being usually aluminium on aluminium.     FWIW I've had to deal with steel QR skewers seized in aluminium axles; they can be proper stinkers.

I guess some pretty full-on anti-seize treatment ought to be applied; IME very many greases decompose into something that actually seems to help seizure.... ::-)

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