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Laddos crank arm keeps coming loose and literally falling off. Is it just a Google for loctite blue? It needs a new bb soon so I don't want anything too weldy! TIA
Go for red, it's more for items that aren't often removed. There is a version for taking up the slack in bearings (yellow) which might do if the red doesn't work.
You probably need new cranks.
If the spline or taper is damaged no amount of loctite will hold it on .
What Al said
yeah, the force even a kid will put through a crank would defeat anything other than actual "weldy", I reckon
When I did mine once (the old octalink ones) I wondered about putting some sort of bolt right through the middle of the crank axle, like those headset tensioners - figured maybe with a nice nyloc bolt on that might just hold it. DIdn't fancy mashing my ankle on the bolthead though so I got rid and replaced. I suppose if you were good you could make a countersunk version but then if I'd been that good I'd prob not have ****ed my crank
407?
What cynic al said.
Mmm this is an old octal8nk one. What tools do I need to butcher it out?
You just need a standard B.B. tool. New octalink B.B. can be got for less than a tenner
chances are that it's the crank rather than the BB
It'll definitely be the crank not the axle.
aluminium crank vs heat treated hardened steel BB
only gonna be one winner
How tight are you doing up the bolts?
I've never used threadlock, run octalink a lot and never had a bolt come loose.
issue being if its come loose even once and you have kept riding it till it falls off
it aint going to stay tight going forward.