Rick Onanian wrote:


No, you'd just pull the skewer right out of the wheel.


You should go look at your bike.
The front wheel's axle fits into the dropouts.
It is not just the skewer in the dropouts.
Go ahead and pull your skewer out with someone
sitting on the bike. The skewer is a skinny
piece of metal because it is only supposed to
be loaded in tension. The outside of the axle
presses against the top of the dropout slot when
the skewer is removed.



The skewer has enough play that it slides through the
hole in the axle. That is enough.

What you are proposing is dangerous.
You are proposing eliminating the part of the axle that
extends into the dropout. That would not only make
it difficult to line up the axle with the little holes
and get the skewer through, but it would load the
skewer in shear if you ever adjusted it with any load
on the bike.

Stergios