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Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Tosspot wrote:

Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. *What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Despite having worked for years in the bike business, I know them by
no better name than "QR springs".

They are not of any real use, unless you're in a real hurry to smack a
replacement wheel into place and get back into the race. But you do
need either one on each side or none.

Chalo

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:36:39 +0200, Tosspot
wrote:

Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Dear TP,

They're skewer springs.

Conical quick release skewer springs, a buck each:

http://www.loosescrews.com/index.cgi...d=199672914629

Quick release skewer springs, $1.84 each:

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product.a...S&currency=USD

Campy replacement skewer springs, $9.[gulp!]88 per pair:
http://www.branfordbike.com/hub/hub02.html

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

In ,
Tosspot tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

They've always been known as "Jesus Springs" around here, coz when one is
dropped on the floor and succumbs to Fridge Suck[1], the only option is to
shout "Jeeeeeesus CHRIST!" and hope there's another one in the tin of
Potentially Useful Stuffs in the shed.

1 - the most powerful force in the universe

--
Dave Larrington
http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk
Ha ha, you fool! You've fallen victim to one of the classic
blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war
in Asia"

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:41:48 +0100, "Dave Larrington"
said in
:

They've always been known as "Jesus Springs" around here, coz when one is
dropped on the floor and succumbs to Fridge Suck[1], the only option is to
shout "Jeeeeeesus CHRIST!" and hope there's another one in the tin of
Potentially Useful Stuffs in the shed.

We're back to ping****it clips, aren't we?

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:36:39 +0200
Tosspot wrote:

Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

If you keep killing them just stop using them and save yourself some
hassle. The only thing they do is hold the QR away from the
dropouts while you're putting the wheel in, they do nothing once the QR
is fastened.

Tosspot wrote:
Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?


volute spring

--
/Marten

info(apestaartje)m-gineering(punt)nl

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:03:27 +0200
M-gineering wrote:

Tosspot wrote:
Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo
stuff for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break
Google completely with spazzed out search arguments?


volute spring

Sticking
skewer spring
in Google shopping comes up with more relevant results.

wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:36:39 +0200, Tosspot
wrote:

Those little spirally spring spacer thingies that do some voodo stuff
for QR skewers. What the **** are they called before I break Google
completely with spazzed out search arguments?

And yes, I have mangled one, not the first either, so a packet of 1/2
dozen would keep me going into my dotage.

Dear TP,

They're skewer springs.

Conical quick release skewer springs, a buck each:

http://www.loosescrews.com/index.cgi...d=199672914629

Quick release skewer springs, $1.84 each:

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product.a...S&currency=USD

Campy replacement skewer springs, $9.[gulp!]88 per pair:
http://www.branfordbike.com/hub/hub02.html

Cheers Carl, you're a scholar and a gentleman. Put me on the right
track straight off. I was going a bit flibbily trying to work that out.

On 30 Sep, 15:34, Rob Morley wrote:

If you keep killing them just stop using them and save yourself some
hassle. *The only thing they do is hold the QR away from the
dropouts while you're putting the wheel in, they do nothing once the QR
is fastened.

And think of the weight you save.

--
Dave...