Originally Posted by
MNRon
This comes across as the dreaded "JRA" failure. I'm not saying that you did anything, but stripping out two arms in a short period of time?
+1 I refurbish old, neglected bikes, usually 25 to 35 years old, and I have not seen this problem in the last 150 bikes. Maybe I have been lucky. To have it happen back to back, with two different sets of pedals, and two different cranks, is way out on the probability curve. It will be interesting to hear what the cause was in this case.