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Originally Posted by rustymongrel
I can make 900 track axles. I have an original one on my disc to work off of and a machine shop in my garage. I'm supposed to do one for a friend soon... making more than one at a time is certainly more efficient time wise if anyone is interested.
Those are great discs that are easy to find for cheap. It's "old tech" that still fast.

Originally Posted by MarkWW
If you can make the heat treated locknuts that always crack on them, I know a few guys looking.
Yup.

Between the lack of inventory of track axles and the broken long locknut/spacers, the 900 has fallen out of use.

I know Zipp can't support every product indefinitely, but I wonder why they didn't keep these small parts on hand after the life of the product.

The fatal flaw of that locknut was that it was thin-walled and easily cracked when someone like me was gorilla-fisted with it. You can simply make it beefier. Who cares if it doesn't look great or be as light. It works.
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