[CR]Now: Broken Cranks Was: Campagnolo crank weakness

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:03:23 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <001201c2e720$f66fffa0$719afea9@chasds>
Subject: [CR]Now: Broken Cranks Was: Campagnolo crank weakness

Here's the web site with broken bicycle cranks: http://pardo.net/pardo/bike/pic/fail/FAIL-001.html

Chuck "I was just riding along" Schmidt L.A.

"C. Andrews" wrote:
>
> I found a great web-site, through a fellow I sold a crank
> to, that has some excellent pictures and explanations of
> what happens when the notorious stress-riser on Record
> cranks is not filed into a nice, fat radius, but rather is
> challenged continuously under high loads. As clear an
> explanation of why we should *all* make a radius there as
> I've ever seen.
>
> I know we've been through this before, but I thought this
> site was especially clear and compelling.
>
> http://technology.open.ac.uk/materials/mem/mem-ccf4.html
>
> Charles *uhhh..not all my Records have radii* Andrews
> SoCal