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Alright.
You know the old racks that you can strip down yourself? Well where can you get replacements for those stupid tab washer/locknut thingies? You know, the ones that are impossible to remove. If, at this stage, you don't know what I'm on about, don't worry - only lunatics like me try to service their own racks.
Minispares only supply exchange racks but the blokes who do the recon must buy theses thingsfrom somewhere.....who?....where?....anyone?

Ah, so that's why I get funny looks, I'm also a rack-recoer-lunatic!

You meaning the lock-nuts that kinda have a built in lock-tab?

I've never bought a new one, I just swap the Left with the Right and viki-verka, then you (nearly always) end up with a clean tab to punch in. As far as I am aware, internal parts for UK Racks are just non existent, happy to be corrected though.

Thanks Spider. How do you open up the tabs for removal? I engineered a special drift out of an old centre punch but lost it many years ago

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