Hi what caused yours to strip. I blame my brilliant local bike shop, brilliant as they are good but they was last people to fit a back wheel on bike and tighten axle and for over a year I never had to mess with it. Then yesterday desperate to ride I find tyre flat but no puncture. It was down to presta valve being super loose making air not hold in. Tried do it and super tight but then problems occurred. Why can't all tyre problems be front wheel only back wheel to much work.
The cause of the problem is firstly where the Allen key inserts into the axle is very thin to save weight so it is a common problem with the 40’s and secondly the owner didn’t loosen the clamping bolt before trying to take out the axle bolt so I they brought it to me to fix
@@juicemooseman I took it to shop yesterday lucky they had spare axle and said what should do from now on is this. Every so often undo and tighten your axle to prevent seizing up. Leaving axle alone for a while can cause seizing so make sure to do this so it remains fine.
Maybe but i doubt it. My friend had tried reverse screwing with the special drill bit and the nail punch and hammer method with no luck… left a pretty big hole after that!
I would probably drill out the rest of the threads plus a bit more depending how much meat is on the fork and get a machine shop to lathe out a cylinder piece with a flange that would insert into the drill out area while the flange covering the outside so the fork can pull together and tap a thread into it for the axel.
@@juicemooseman That would be impossible for a private citizen in Sweden, like myself, to get. Unless said private citizen had a lot of contacts. This was just a hypothetical scenario. I'm glad I have QR skewers.
