[CR]ebay Stronglight crank with Frozen pedals

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From: "KCTOMMY" <KCTOMMY@email.msn.com>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <B67B4C6C.2062%d.kennard@home.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:00:50 -0600
Subject: [CR]ebay Stronglight crank with Frozen pedals

Does anyone recognize the pedals in this sale? http://www.honesty.com/images/imageTemplate.html?img=http://images.honesty.c om/imagedata/h/324/10/23241094.jpg.

Seller says the pedals are stuck in the cranks. Are they of sufficient quality to match the Stronglight crank and to be worth keeping?

If the decision would be to remove the pedals, and assuming they are french threaded (ze pedals look very gallic), can french pedal threads be retapped to english specs (under the assumption that there will be irrepearable damage the french threads from forcible extraction)?

What would be the best way to entice frozen pedals from the crank arm, hopefully saving both parts, but at all costs preserving the cranks?

Thanks in advance.

Tom Adams, still showing my new International to anyone too slow to avoid me in Kansas City.