cleat screws

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"Baelwulfe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped out

from

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the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this from
happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my landlord take a

grinder

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to my sidi'd 🙂

thanks
ATC BOB

Did you grease the screws when you first attached them to the shoes?

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Baelwulfe said:

Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped
out from the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent
this from happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my
landlord take a grinder to my sidi'd 🙂

thanks
ATC BOB

How tight do you put them on? I put lock tite and then
tighten them until I can't move the wrench.

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- Zilla
Cary, NC
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"Baelwulfe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped out

from

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the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this from
happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my landlord take a

grinder

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to my sidi'd 🙂

thanks
ATC BOB

Did you use the right sized metric wrench, and not just the closest standard
wrench? That'll do it quick.

Chris

On 2004-06-03, Baelwulfe penned:

Quoted message said:

Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped
out from the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this
from happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my landlord take
a grinder to my sidi'd 🙂

Can you clean any caked-in dirt out of the hole? That's what we had to
do to remove my old cleats. Once the dirt was totally cleared out, it
was a piece of cake.

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monique

Baelwulfe said:

Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped out from
the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this from
happening?

Forget it, dude. You're [censored].

XOXO

Grendel

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Baelwulfe said:

Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped out

from

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the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this from
happening?

Forget it, dude. You're [censored].

He's not screwed at all. It's mighty easy to use a dremel to cut a notch in the
bolt head and then use a screwdriver to back it out. No big deal. Done it
several times.

That said, our OP really ought to grease the the threads when he puts on new
cleats.

Cheers,

-Andrew

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He's not screwed at all. It's mighty easy to use a dremel to cut a notch

in the

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bolt head and then use a screwdriver to back it out. No big deal. Done it
several times.

That's what we did with mine, it works.

- CA-G

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Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped
out from the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent
this from happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my
landlord take a grinder to my sidi'd 🙂

Almost every time I've replaced cleats, I've had to take my shoes over to my
friend's house to have the bolts drilled out.

Bill "I round 'em out...AND pack 'em in (with concrete-hard dirt)" S.

"Baelwulfe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Anyone else have a problem with their cleat screws getting stripped out from
the allen wrenches, and if so what can you do to prevent this from
happening? I really feel uncomfortable watching my landlord take a grinder
to my sidi'd 🙂

thanks
ATC BOB

When it comes to bicycle and bicycle-related fixin', a sawzall, monkey
wrench, and sledgehammer will get just about any job done.

You could also get a drill and, say, a 1/4" bit, drill through the
bolt's head until it pops off, and remove the threaded bit with
pliers.

/s

(Andrew Thorne) said:

He's not screwed at all.

Something went "whoosh" over your head there, dude.

CC
Wyrd saves oft the man undoomed if he undaunted be.

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(Andrew Thorne) said:

He's not screwed at all.

Something went "whoosh" over your head there, dude.

CC
Wyrd saves oft the man undoomed if he undaunted be.

Didn't read enough Olde Englifhe in college, I'm afraid.

-Andrew "but don't get me started on Ricardian differential rent" Thorne