Originally Posted by
gaucho777
I have the wonderful Bikesmith cotter press, and have used it successfully in the past. But, for the life of me, I can't get the cotter pin on my Peugeot UE-8's nds crank arm to fit right. It came lose about 6 months ago. Every couple months, I get the conviction to try and file and fit in another cotter pin, and every time I fail.
You have probably been failing to make appropriate offerings to the bike gods.