Does anyone know or can perhaps even offer an informed guess which specific Al alloys were used to make Campagnolo and Stronglight (needn't limit it to those two necessarily) crankarms? I'd be interested in looking up empirica l data for fatigue and physical properties.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
On 7/17/06, Toni Theilmeier <toni.theilmeier@t-online.de> wrote:
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> > Stronglight cranks are softer than Campy, which is why they don't
> > crack like Campy NR infamously do.
> ..., Jerry wrote.
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> May I add that I have just salvaged a Stronglight crank, and that this
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> crank has the crack in exactly the Campag NR place?
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> Sorry to say that Stronglight cranks do crack if they´re made in the
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> Campag way. Susceptibility to cracking varies with models, I´d say.
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> Regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany
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