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Your table hardware was likely optimized for profit and not usability. Replace them with larger nuts or knobs.

Bicycles are unfortunately losing their quick releases because of the disk brake incursion and the increased risk of wheel ejection when not properly installed. Plus carbon frame builders want to skimp on robust dropouts to make up for the weight gain of the heavy hub and brake setup.

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It was optimized for profit, highest prices, lowest possible cost. The very lowest possible cost.

Wingnuts are strong, and you can pry them on, and off with a screw driver.

I made a portable shack with carriage bolts and wing nuts. When it came time to break down the wood has all swelled with moisture... so the screwdriver loosed them all.

I have had several accounts in the past, just for fun. I'm a complete newbie, but enjoyed many articles and commented on them. I was constantly downvoted (or whatever term is used) and I was many times just innocently asking honest questions. I feel that most of the people here ARE childish and can't relate, and therefore impose their 'powers' of banning and downvoting. After a year of all that childish behavior on here, I just closed my accounts and left. I am just a very curious (and I think I am intelligent) retired senior aerospace engineer. I was just so rudely treated here that I couldn't fathom the reasons for it. I am just too ignorant of this 'new' culture, I guess...

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