jetski's toolbox - today: the most simple DIY wheel anti-theft nut

You have to go a long way up the bling scale before axles and nuts could stand the removal of material & retain sufficient strength.

Hey 36x18, I appreciate your judicious and nice response. Thanks again for the great wheelbuild btw, I guess you really have my wheels in front of you on your mind, right? ;-)
Don't you think it all stands and falls with the diameters you drill? If you drill just a 2mm hole and it's through a doubled-up nut and not through the first, do you actually still think it would be too weak?

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Keep corrosion at bay by using grease? The pin wouldn't fall out when you up-ended your bike. Coat it in candle wax, like the Greeks who built the Acropolis coated the famous steel pins? (Yeah, they used lead) Spoke prep? You'd need to carry a plumbers torch to heat the thing up enough to free the pin.

Yes that's what I thought - sticky grease or wax or something similar that will become liquid when you heat it with a normal lighter. The pin itself stainless, and smaller diameter than hole. Do you really think it would still be stuck in there then?