Originally Posted by
jwh20
I don't have one but I have considered buying one in the past. My problem is that I've not touched a metal lathe since shop class in the 8th grade. If I can't find something off-the-shelf I may take the parts to a local machine shop and see if they can make it work. If the threaded axle was cut down to 135mm by taking 3.5mm off each end, and the two end nuts were "shaved" down by 3.5mm each, the entire assembly would fit and then using a 12 x 135mm thru axle to QR adapter (these seem to be pretty common) it should work.
Any thought on why this wouldn't work?
I am not really following you.
IF you can shave off 3.5 mm off each side of the hub, then I have seen thru axles that let you run a 135x12mm TA hub in a 135mm QR frame. Like this: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/us/en/nukeproof-conversion-kit-qr-rear/rp-prod34779
I am not sure how you could fit the current 12mm axle into the QR dropouts. It is not just a matter of cuttig the length down, it is too thick (12mm) to fit in the QR dropout (10mm).