Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
I've had that fail several times, on cheap MTB cranks with riveted chainrings. I couldn't get the wedges placed in way that didn't end up blocked by the inner chainring.
True, but my rule is try the easy way until/unless it won't work. The beauty of using these (which used to be dirt cheap) is that when they work, you know that are can be reused and remover the same way, saving the cost of replacing.
Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
That's how the VAR kit I mentioned above works. It cuts new, 24mm x 1.5mm threads, and then sell the customer the 24 x 1.5 thread self-extractors for subsequent crank removals.
Yes, and BITD we also sometimes retapped cranks to use Stronglight removers. But, IMO, we need to self impose cost limits for saving anything short of a true collectible.