Axle conundrum?
 

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Axle conundrum?

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So I have a pair of these on my road bike:

https://www.huntbikewheels.com/products/hunt-48-limitless-ud-carbon-spoke-disc-wheelset?variant=39815114293325

I already had a pair of these, for which I recently added tyres, cassette & rotors to serve as winter wheels:

https://www.merlincycles.com/dt-swiss-g-1800-spline-25-disc-gravel-wheelset-700c-181087.html

Up front, everything is 12 x 100 but the axle on the former won't go through the hub of the latter. From the disc side it stops about 1/2 inch in, and from the opposite side it goes through but stops at the same point. I can't see a ridge, or reason why.

Any ideas?

Thanks


 
Posted : 28/01/2023 3:41 pm
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Hit it harder?


 
Posted : 28/01/2023 3:59 pm
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I'd like to get it out again...


 
Posted : 28/01/2023 4:01 pm
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You didn't mention that 😉🤣


 
Posted : 28/01/2023 4:03 pm
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Sometimes the internal spacers and in my experience, the end caps, can get slightly ovalised during extraction for service - Hope are particularly easy to damage. A bit of wet and dry can rectify this, it only needs to be slight and not perceptible with the human eye!
Hope this helps.


 
Posted : 28/01/2023 4:43 pm
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Yep, turns out that...

Hit it harder?

..was the answer. It just needed a couple of solid taps with the palm of my hand to get past what I think is a small anomaly between hub & end cap. And yes, it slides out nicely - I coated it in parks grease to help.

Thats good, now I don't have a £1500 set of deep carbons exposed to the shitty winter Hertfordshire lanes!


 
Posted : 29/01/2023 3:36 pm

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