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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail 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 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: <vqcd68$304r9$2@dont-email.me> References: <a9fhsj5uot4r2ctagf55estg8iusrgr1u0@4ax.com> <vqahsh$2jlct$1@dont-email.me> <vqbvt0$2uir6$4@dont-email.me> <vqccop$30mo6$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:58:17 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e3a311516feb02ba7522a563237848ea"; logging-data="3150697"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19EmuuEOlluzRQqaYkq5vQf+bWoGn8i/ig=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vppxQ+ezK8pNBofWlKF1T1Q3CKM= In-Reply-To: <vqccop$30mo6$4@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3197 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 -- Add xx to reply