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142 axle help
msjhes2
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Hi all, I just bought a commencal meta am and the axle is listed as 142 * 12, so I bought a DT Swiss RWS 142X12 but it does not fit. The screw thread is a completely different cut. Any ideas what axle I do need?

Cheers in advance

Posted 11 years ago

STATO
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I believe there are two types of 142mm axle, must be the other type, shimano perhaps?

Posted 11 years ago

unklehomered
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Maxle i think/hope…

Sneaky of them not have supplied it IMO…

Posted 11 years ago

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msjhes2
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bloody cheeky now I have seen the cost!

Posted 11 years ago

iain1775
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Check the Commencal website shop on there is a formula 142mm axle
Looks just like a Maxle but significantly cheaper (although factor in postage so it may be worth also getting the rear mudguard to protect the shock
http://www.commencal-store.com/Mobile/MBSCProduct.asp?pdtid=10484455

Posted 11 years ago

batman11
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I take it you’ve bough the frame new?? in which case it shoul;d come with an axal all other brands surply them that i kow of!!!it is like surplying it with out it’s rearshox totaly not fit for purpose…
contact your shop where you got it from or commencal see what they have to say first.

Posted 11 years ago

ChunkyMTB
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Yeah if the frame is new it should have been supplied with the correct maxle

Posted 11 years ago

unklehomered
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Frame only says on the site maxle not included, Frameset didn’t – which led me to believe it would be included…

Posted 11 years ago

iain1775
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It doesn’t come with axle
Anyone my idea how you fit the press fit BB to the Meta AM?
There is a lump of metl that protrudes intk te BB shell, right where the BB cups go, looks like the only way is to cut down the plastic cups that house the bearings

Posted 11 years ago

unklehomered
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I’ll have a look at mine tonight and see if its there in mine…

Posted 11 years ago

iain1775
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It will be its part of the frame design

Posted 11 years ago

unklehomered
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It will be its part of the frame design

Google honesty translates to

please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back, please let me not have to send it back

Posted 11 years ago

msjhes2
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I just cut the flanges of the plastic shimano push fit bb, once I had realised (which was after a long time trying to force it in!).

Just spent nearly three hours running all the cables internally which was tough. It does look good though.

Posted 11 years ago

iain1775
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msjhes
thats what I figured I will have to do

I ran cables easy enough though, took about 30 minutes to feed a pilot wire (nylon washing line) through. I started at bottom bracket and fed it forwards towards the bigger headtube holes and backwards, using some tweezers to get the wire out the smaller holes. Tape outer cable to the pilot wire and pull it back through. Just got brakes and Reverb to dismantle and get through now

Posted 11 years ago

msjhes2
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makes sense, I did it with out a pilot wire and struggled to get the rear mech one through the chain stays.

The reverb is the only one i have not done. how easy is it to remove and refit the cable?

Posted 11 years ago

unklehomered
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easyish from the remote end, just twists undone, don’t know how hard to do without loosing fluid though, but its not like brakes – doesn’t get subjected to high pressure etc…

Posted 11 years ago

iain1775
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I’d be wanting ro drain all the fluid from it, save it leaking on the paintwork

Posted 11 years ago