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Vent: Took me 3 years to realize I was greasing pedal threads
Just had a moment where a customer's crank arm cracked at the shop in Boise and my coworker pointed out I was supposed to use anti-seize instead of grease on pedal threads. Has anyone else made this mistake or am I the only one who missed that memo?
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aaron_ellis421mo ago
Oh come on, is it really that big of a deal? I mean, sure, maybe anti-seize is technically the right call, but grease has been working fine for tons of people for years. You probably weren't gonna wreck anything anyway unless you were cranking down on those pedals like a madman. A cracked crank arm sounds more like a defective part or over-tightening than a lube issue to me. People get way too hung up on these little details when it mostly just needs to not seize up.
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charles_coleman1mo ago
You ever seen a guy have to drill out a seized pedal bolt on a $400 carbon crank, @aaron_ellis42? My buddy did, and he swore by wheel bearing grease for years.
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