Hello,
When the bottom bracket went on my old bike, I decided to attempt to repair it myself. Guy at the LBS sold me the crank extractor in the image attached. My bike has an old-style male threaded spindle, like the one on this page: http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/crank2.htm.
Now, my problem is this: the tophat-looking part of the extractor (on the right end of the piece in front in the image), as far as I can figure, is an adaptor so the crank extractor can be used to extract splined cranks. I can't get it off. It seems to need to come off so that I can wind that part of the extractor into the other part, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get it off.
My best guess at this point is that I've got the wrong sort of crank extractor - splined cranks only. But am I missing something here?
Thanks...
- SMJ
When the bottom bracket went on my old bike, I decided to attempt to repair it myself. Guy at the LBS sold me the crank extractor in the image attached. My bike has an old-style male threaded spindle, like the one on this page: http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/crank2.htm.
Now, my problem is this: the tophat-looking part of the extractor (on the right end of the piece in front in the image), as far as I can figure, is an adaptor so the crank extractor can be used to extract splined cranks. I can't get it off. It seems to need to come off so that I can wind that part of the extractor into the other part, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get it off.
My best guess at this point is that I've got the wrong sort of crank extractor - splined cranks only. But am I missing something here?
Thanks...
- SMJ