Hi everybody,

So I found this rusty bike on the street the other day being tossed away and was thinking of making it my beater bike. It was rusted pretty tight (been left out all winter looked like) but I got it apart and stripped it down to the frame, bb, and cranks. Took off the rust and was feeling pretty happy about it. The cranks were cottered and I got the non-chain ring side off just fine but on the other side I bent the screw. Aggh!

Well I figured I could just take off the bb on that side and slide the whole mess out and so took it to the bike co-op where they have a thin enough cone wrench to get in there. WD-40'd it real good both around the outside and from inside. I think I yanked on this thing for 30 minutes at least and it never even budged. Not one bit.

Anyways, anyone have an clues about how I might go about getting it off? Or is it just a bust? Easy come, easy go I guess but it's a nice enough (for being free) large frame and I'd quite like to fix it up. If nothing else, I guess it'll teach me to be more careful with cottered cranks!

Thanks for any help,

J