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@h2o
He's right, you know, alu isn't so good for the rear.
Read this (on skewers, admittedly)
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/skewers.html
Re your skewer example - I doubt it's plastic where it clamps onto the drop-out. It just has a plastic cover.