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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: wtf chain ring bolts
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 09:58:16 -0500
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On 3/6/2025 9:51 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/6/2025 5:11 AM, zen cycle wrote:
>> On 3/5/2025 5:06 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 3/5/2025 3:08 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> The chain ring guard came so I set about mounting the chain rings and
>>>> the guard. I ordered new chain ring bolts because I didn't want to
>>>> disassemble the old crank. The new inner bolts had hex deep down
>>>> inside and I figure that was fine until I could not find a allen
>>>> wrench that fit them. I tried both metric and standard and nothing
>>>> fits. The bolts on my old crank take a #5 allen.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what's going on?
>>>>
>>>> I ordered another set of 16mm bolts and they look like they have a
>>>> larger hex that's not set deep inside it.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> C'est bon
>>>> Soloman
>>>
>>> News to me; 5-arm 110mm chainring bolts are a universal commodity AFAIK.
>>>
>>> With a magnifier, see if they are just broached poorly or maybe if 
>>> they are Torx.  If you succumbed to the bad idea of an aluminum 
>>> chainring bolt that's very possible.
>>
>> I have a set that are torx, and it's a known "problem"
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/comments/6drndl/ 
>> shimano_chainring_bolts_t30_torx_why/?rdt=44490
>>
>> If the bolts have crud built up and the light isn't really good, they 
>> can look like Allen,
>>
>> Just make sure whether they're Imperial or Metric :)
> 
> Imperial are a distinct rarity here in USA ( I went all over hell to 
> find a WW allen for my custom Hetchins long ago).
> 
> More common are SAE, which outnumber, in fasteners and tools, metric to 
> some great degree.
> 
> That said, chainring bolts are a minuscule subset of fasteners and, as a 
> standard consumer product, not-metric are virtually unknown (or at least 
> I have never seen one. Not one.)
> 
> It did actually turn out to be defective broaching which makes more 
> sense than any other variant.
> 

um....It was a joke about metric vs imperial torx, Andrew

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