Originally Posted by
FlashBazbo
How tight do you adjust them? Can you really "lean" on them without worrying about it?
(At some point, even if the skewer is strong, I worry about the effects on the wheel hub, fork or frame. I've flexed a titanium frame -- using thru axles -- enough to pull the brake disk out of alignment. It's possible to get things too tight.)
The point is that force in the handle is not transmitted to tension in the rod with an external cam skewer as well an with an internal cam one. You don't' have to worry about over tightening as much as not tightening enough. It takes a lot of force to get external cam skewers to hold.