silstar crank, old bike

Don't know the history of Silstar, but I have a couple of oldish Claud
Butler bikes with Silstar chainsets.

Mine have an obsolete BCD (118mm springs to mind, but don't hold me to
it), so spare rings are hard to come by, but this isn't your problem
at the moment.

BB will probably be rather longer axle than for more modern cranks
(mine take 121mm BB axle), but still readily available. Standard
square taper, no no preoble there.

Cup and cone BB parts are often interchangeable. When fixing one of my
above mentioned bikes I needed to repace the fixed cup (happened to
have one in my spares box), but kept the rest of the original BB.

In short, no problem. If the BB needs replacing you should be able to
readily source a new one. Only if you want to replace individual
chainrings might you have a problem.

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i was thinking about buying an old (early 80s) bike that has a

silstar

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crank. it feels that the BB needs service but the net is totally

unaware

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of the brand. have they merged to another company, could i still

find

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spare parts? is it compatible mechanically to anything on the

market?

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buying a new bike is not preferred as there is no such design

available

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currently: steel frame, road bars.

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Silstar became Pinnacle, but only the fishing gear division seems to have
survived.

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i was thinking about buying an old (early 80s) bike that has a silstar
crank. it feels that the BB needs service but the net is totally unaware
of the brand. have they merged to another company, could i still find
spare parts? is it compatible mechanically to anything on the market?

buying a new bike is not preferred as there is no such design available
currently: steel frame, road bars.

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{snip crank question cuz no clue}

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buying a new bike is not preferred as there is no such design
available currently: steel frame, road bars.

Say what?

Quoted message said:

i was thinking about buying an old (early 80s) bike that has a silstar
crank. it feels that the BB needs service but the net is totally unaware
of the brand. have they merged to another company, could i still find
spare parts? is it compatible mechanically to anything on the market?

buying a new bike is not preferred as there is no such design available
currently: steel frame, road bars.

They were bought up by SR (who bought SunTour later). I used to have
some "SR Silstar" cranks.

So does this mean that Silstar cranks won't fit an ordinary bottom
bracket?

I am worried now ;-). If this is so then any bottom bracket problems
on my tandem could turn out rather expensive.

Andrew Webster

Jasper Janssen said:

Jeff Starr said:

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my current one is otherwise ok but it has fauber crank, thus i cannot use
clipless pedals. needs a crank/BB modification.

Hi, where are you located?

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Email address sez likelihood of a Finland resident is high.

right.

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I'm a bit confused about the crank affecting clipless pedals, aside from
possibly non-standard thread size.

fauber (one piece steel crank) has 1/2" threads. 3 piece cranks use
9/16". 1/2" thingies are obsolete.

solutions:
1) fix the fauber thread. expensive, risky due to reduced material.
2) fix the pedal by rethreading or assebling the latches. maybe not.
3) get a modification set fauber to 3 piece. hard to find.
4) get a adapter 1/2 to 9/16. adds offset.
5) find a new bike.

i'm working on #3 and #5.

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