FW: Re: [CR]campagnolo pedal-hole caps: how to remove?/ Now How to install?

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From: "nick zatezalo" <nickzz@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: FW: Re: [CR]campagnolo pedal-hole caps: how to remove?/ Now How to install?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:56:33 -0500


So how were the pedal dust caps installed on these arms?

The pedal caps do indeed have round openings and they measure >1.5mm and < 2mm. They are not hex openings that have been rounded out.

The crank arm dust caps have 5mm hex opening.

Nick Zatezalo Atlanta,Ga


> > [Original Message]
> > From: <smwillis@verizon.net>
> > To: C. Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Date: 11/12/2004 6:05:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CR]campagnolo pedal-hole caps: how to remove?
> >
> >
> > > Well it used to be 5mm allen but it looks like that was used poorly. Try two small holes and us a pin tool. Steven Willis
> > Scotch Plains NJ 07076
> > http://www.thebikestand.com
> > > From: "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
> > > Date: 2004/11/12 Fri PM 12:16:59 CST
> > > To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > > Subject: [CR]campagnolo pedal-hole caps: how to remove?
> > >
> > > I have some first-gen Campagnolo alloy cranks with the pedal
> > > caps. My question is, how the heck to you remove the caps?
> > > There's a tiny hole in the center of the cap, but the hole
> > > appears entirely round, with no flats for an allen wrench
> > > and no threads inside for any other sort of tool..how were
> > > they removed?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Charles Andrews
> > > SoCal
> > >
> > >
> > > #1. THE PROBLEM: We have "overshot"
> > > the carrying capacity of Earth and are
> > > on the edge of "die-off" -- possibly even
> > > "die-out". Probably no more than
> > > two billion people could be sustained
> > > indefinitely.
> > >
> > > #2. THE REASON: We (like other
> > > animals) are programmed to overshoot
> > > in the presence of "exceptional"
> > > (more than average) food, water & health
> > > care, etc. The net energy derived from
> > > fossil fuel that enabled us to produce
> > > exceptional food, water, etc. is
> > > "peaking" now.
> > >
> > > --Jay Hanson