Re: [CR] ebay bottechia 52cm w cottered crank

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Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 19:31:23 -0700
From: "verktyg" <verktyg@aol.com>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] ebay bottechia 52cm w cottered crank


The problem with most cotters from the bike boom era was that they were soft and came loose from normal peddling. WE had several VAR # 07 cotter presses at out shop but sometimes a week later a customer would come back with loose cranks!

Add to that, French, British and Italian sizes plus oddballs in between. We had a VAR # 371 "cotter vise" to hold the cotter while re-filing the taper.

>http://www.sheldonbrown.com/var/pages/var0012.html<

Zeus made some hardened steel cotters which fit most French cranks. They were expensive and in short supply but they never came loose.

Chas. Colerich
Oakland, CA USA