I have come across a couple of examples of pedals "frozen" in Campagnolo Re
cord cranks. One pair I still have where the pedals are also Campagnolo and
I still haven't got one out. The other example was a cheap pair of p
edals stuck in some cranks in poor condition - they came with a load of oth
er stuff I bought and I didn't want them so I just sold them on as they wer
e. I have also seen Campagnolo cranks with damaged pedal threads
where the damage was clearly the result of unscrewing a seized pedal.Â
Has anybody found an effective solution? I think prevention is ea
sy enough but an effective cure eludes me.
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Hugh Thornton
Cheshire, England
From: Morgan Fletcher <morgan@hahaha.org> Subject: Re: [CR]removing never before removed pedals? To: crabulux@yahoo.com Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Wednesday, 26 November, 2008, 9:36 PM
devon warner wrote:
> hi guys,
> i have a Sugino Mighty Tour crank set with Kyokuto quill pedals both
bought new in january of 1981. i have NEVER ever removed those pedals (had
them
both continuously on a bike ever since, in rain or shine.) is it safe to t
ake
them off? i have been told if i do it will strip out the threads on my cra
nk
set since after all this time we can expect some sort of chemical welding
between the steel and aluminum. no, i don't want to ruin the crank set, bu
t
i do want to move the pedals to another bike, if possible. Any advice abou
t how
i might safely do that?
They should unthread fine. I can't think of a case where galvanic corrosion (the aluminum / steel problem) has caused a threaded-on bicycle component t o withstand appropriately applied torque, in my personal experience. OK well maybe a freewheel or two, but I think that was a mechanical problem, not a corros ion problem.
Morgan Fletcher
Oakland, CA