Re: [CR]Crank/Bottom Bracket Question

(Example: Framebuilding)

Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:45:24 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Crank/Bottom Bracket Question
To: OROBOYZ@aol.com, mail@woodworkingboy.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Steel shim material is sold by industrial supply stores like Grainger in various thin dimensions. That should work.

Joe B-Z
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
To: mail@woodworkingboy.com
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Crank/Bottom Bracket Question



> In a message dated 5/26/2003 8:20:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mail@woodworkingboy.com writes:
>
> << I have a pista crank arm that just short of torque bottoms out against the
> bb outside face. The other arm sits OK, and since the bb is nearly new, I
> assume the taper in the arm is worn. I thought about trying to shim it, or
> maybe just backing it off until it clears and riding it this way. Can
> anyone suggest a established remedy for this? >>
>
> Sadly, the steel bbkt spindle never wears, it is always the softer crank arm.
> I have successfully made shims, slivers of beer can materials, carefully fit
> to all four faces of the bbkt spindle end but one can have little confidence
> in such a repair...
>
>
> Dale Brown
> cycles de ORO, Inc.
> 1410 Mill Street
> Greensboro, North Carolina
> USA 27408
> 336-274-5959
> Fax 336-274-6360
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