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  • Pedal Spindle Wrench Flat Tweakage

    A new-old-stock pair of pedals for Mary’s bike had wrench flats just slightly too narrow for my 15 mm wrench:

    Titanium pedal spindle - as built
    Titanium pedal spindle – as built

    Well, that’s easy to fix:

    Titanium pedal spindle - filed to flats
    Titanium pedal spindle – filed to flats

    For reasons lost in the mists of time, those are titanium spindles. They file just like steel; I’m not fussy.