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Old 05-18-06 | 10:32 AM
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HillRider
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Originally Posted by fore
The hell it doesn't. I had two identical Campy Record cranksets and bottom brackets. I installed one with a greased spindle, one without. I used a torque wrench. At the same torque the crank attached to the greased spindle had gone further on than the one with the non-greased spindle.
Yes it did initially but the other crank would slowly "crawl" up the spindle in response to the residual stress. Read Jobst's article.
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