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Anybody know the alloy and heat treat recipe for skewer ends?
The nice steel shimano ones that last *forever?
*Figuratively speaking..
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 Originally Posted by Captain Duderino
The nice steel shimano ones that last *forever?
*Figuratively speaking..
It is somewhat unclear to me, what your question is?
If you can explain, I may be able to give you the answer 
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No clue, but I would guess they're not heat treated at all. Just cold forged low carbon stuff would be my guess.
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Originally Posted by steadite
No clue, but I would guess they're not heat treated at all. Just cold forged low carbon stuff would be my guess.
Yeah, as I see chew marks in the dropouts of my older steel frames that have come to me with their original brake pads and tires, I assume that the skewers are also original, but their teeth are not flattened any more than the new ones at the store, I have to lean towards the total opposite of that idea unless campag, miyata, and other 80's jap dropouts are an even softer highschool metalshop tool-steel type. I suppose maybe dropouts don't need to be very hard?
I don't know, though. That's why I ask. Thanks.
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Why? Are you looking to make new skewers?
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You could probably do them out of drill rod and do a basic heat and quench to harden them.
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The Shimano QRs are probably cold-headed/stamped, just like a bolt head. That amount of deformation ("cold working") makes them harder. For costs sake, that's probably all they see + the plating. Forged dropouts are probably not quite as hard. They are pretty tough, though.
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