Originally Posted by
cudak888
Not sure I follow the pedal issue - the spindles appear to be fine.
He might mean the threads poke through on the backside of the cranks, due to steel cranks being thinner.
Campy did make Gran Sport pedals with shorter thread for steel cranks back in the '50s, but those are really hard to find and usually super expensive when you do. I think you need the shorter thread for Campy's very first alloy crank too, the one with the cap over the pedal thread on the back-side (pseudo-"blind" pedal hole).
If I were a "nitpicken C&V judge" I'd look the other way if you shortened the Lyotard thread, and polished the cut end real nice. A smear of grease over it will delay any rusting, and can be re-applied now and then when the grease rubs off. Even if it rusts a little -- well, original Lyotard axles rust a little too. Probably no one will ever know it was originally the longer-thread version.
-mb