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Originally Posted by zandoval
9mm cotter pins with nuts are easy enough to find. Amazon has them for 4$ USA. But understand that getting a proper fit on a cotter pin requires you to do a final manipulation. Not all "9mm cotter pins with nuts" are the same type and size. I take my new pins and go through a detailed tuning per say with micrometer checking angels, tapper and length. Its not hard. Put them in a bench vice and tune them with a file. Don't be surprised when you find out they usually are different for each side of your crank.
If they are, either the pins are not the same, or either the axle or the crankarm is worn/badly made at the axle-crankarm joint.
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