Re: [CR] 16 mm = 5/8", was Stronglight Crank Extractor

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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:17:30 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] 16 mm = 5/8", was Stronglight Crank Extractor


Phil Brown wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Harvey Sachs wrote:
>
>> If the socket's wall is thin enough, I've always been able to get a
>> 5/8" (0.625") socket to work where a 16mm (0.630") is specified. I
>> know that 16 mm sockets exist, but my sets don't have one. I don't
>> think I've ever owned a 16 mm. socket (or other wrench), nor needed
>> one, as long as I had 5/8" stuff.
> I have a Park crank bolt wrench with 14, 15, and 16mm sockets.
> Phil Brown
> But it's not as nice as a Campy peanut butter wrench in Oakland, Calif.

No; and the 16mm doesn't fit into a Zeus crankarm (22mm extractor thread), although it does work on Stronglight arms (23.35mm). Park did make a stand-alone 16mm peanut butter wrench (CCW-16) that is thin enough to fit the 16mm bolts in a Zeus arm.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA