Crankshaft end tapers.
Tosspot wrote:
On 26/06/2020 17:57, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
Is it possible that there are more than one kind of taper?Â* I
recently had to replace the bottom bracket bearings on the missus'
Italian bike. I had to get one a little wider (70mm, I think) and of
smaller diameter than most; but I got a Shimano one that fitted
correctly.Â* But since then, the LH pedal bolt has tended to slacken
slowly, and the crank makes an embarrassing creaking noise int time
with the pedalling effort oscillating from left to right.Â* Is it
possible that the Ofmega pedals fitted to it are not fitting the
taper correctly?Â* No play can be felt by hand, and they are still
almost impossible to remove without lots of unpleasant hammering with
a tapered car balljoint splitter.
Speaking of which, is there a tool that can get pedals off easily?Â* I
Â*had a tool that screwed into the side of the pedal, but instead of
pulling the pedal off, it just pulled out all the alloy thread that
it was supposed to fit into.Â* Again, is that because the Ofmega
pedals have a different thread there?
Welcome to JIS vs ISO.Â* Chuck in the towel and move to JIS.Â* I fought it
for a few years, I didn't win -(
Hm. Well, I am a bit of an old fuddy-duddy. I will now need to find out
what JIS is. Working on old motorbikes, it's even taken me a long time
to get used to metrication. If it wasn't for having to fix the car
every now and then, I would never have had to.
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