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[Closed] Bodging a workstand mount...thoughts appreciated.

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I've been trying to get my new [url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/tacx-t3350-spider-team-workstand/rp-prod121124 ]Tacx Spider Team[/url] workstand to work with the 15mm QR on my Fox 32 CTDs.

The provided mount isn't the right shape - even though Tacx say it's designed for 15mm axels. See below for the particular problem:

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Currently the fork won't go all the way over the mounts, since they don't have the corresponding cut-out.

I've contacted Tacx directly, and their response was pretty much "there's nothing we can do".

SO. Time for a bit of tinkering. I'm fairly sure all it needs is some excess plastic taken off. What do we reckon...use a file?

Potential problems are that the mounts themselves have [url= http://imgur.com/opFvmVV ]quite a narrow lip[/url] and have a [url= http://imgur.com/N1LgLbA ]bevel on the edge[/url].


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 7:03 pm
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I'd just file it until it fitted.


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 7:12 pm
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It's not clear to me where that adaptor fits.


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 7:15 pm
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It pushes through the axle hole in the fork so it fits in the stand clamp.


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 7:22 pm
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And then use a standard QR?


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 7:23 pm
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[url= ]This might explain it best[/url]

It uses the Fox QR15.

The mounts fit inside the slider thingy on the workstand. Forks go over mounts, QR15 slides through as it would through a wheel.


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 8:11 pm
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That makes more sense.

IMO Easiest/neatest option would be to cut the lip on the adaptor down to the same diameter as the hub seats on the forks.


 
Posted : 02/09/2014 9:08 pm