The grease or not to grease debate reverberates in the bike world, and there are many smart people who say no grease. I have gone back and forth over 35 years of bike wrenching but my personal experience says not to grease. I have never damaged a crank by over tightening it. I have had two arms come loose, presumably from being under tightened. And recently I lost a 30 year old left side arm, which may not have been off the spindle in many years, while trying to remove it. The spindle was ungreased and the threads on both the crank and bolt stripped out before the seal got broken. So now I think grease is a good idea. I don't use a torque wrench either but only because I find it too awkward to tighten the crank bolt and read the scale at the same time. However, at 72 I find it necessary to use a decent size ratchet and not just an allen key to get some leverage on the bolt.
Michael On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 2:49:16 AM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Or you can grease the spindle. That's always an option. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
