Re: [CR]Drop out screw help needed

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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:34:54 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR]Drop out screw help needed
From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <BC6FE4D5.3D38%mail@woodworkingboy.com>


On 03/06/2004 04:28 AM, "Dennis Young" <mail@woodworkingboy.com> wrote:
> Help please!
>
> I have a frame where the drop out adjusting screw has a round button on the
> inside that presses up against the hub shaft. The button has a phillips
> indentation on the head of it. I want to remove the adjusting screw, but
> without first removing the button, I can't. I tried to turn the button with
> a driver in the slot, but no go. I hesitate to bugger up the knurled outer
> part with a pliers to get more purchase on the button. Rust is not a issue.
> Are these buttons meant to be removable?

The knurled outer part is the part that comes off. Then you remove the entire screw with a small Philips head screwdriver.

The screw is threaded from the inside of the dropout to the outside; i.e. from front to back.

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