Surely if the aluminium insert is bonded in it can be re bonded as well. If it is the treads that are damaged the heliccoiling is easy strangely many shops in the U.K don't do it.

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Is it possible for a Carbon experienced member to maybe remove the aluminium thread and then rebond it back in place. Maybe its not much cheaper than a new arm, but it may it is?
Thisisatest is correct about helicoils, all the ones I have used are steel, and therefore I would also assume to be stronger than standard alloy thread.

Oops, bm0p700f, beat me to it.

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Rebonding of the aluminum in the carbon crank arm is probably not possible.
Usually the carbon crank arms encapsulate an aluminum plug at the pedal end and depending on the design at the crank spindle end as well. So if you can imagine that if both sides of the
internal bond contact has let go. When you unthread the pedal spindle, if it's even possible.
You will have an alum. part that can slide up and down the crank arm. There will not be room
to get new adhesive on the sides of the part properly.
If the pedal thread insert were a T shape in which only 1 side is bonded, it wouldn't last
long under the pedaling forces.

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If the insert is round and just epoxied to the crank arm then it can be fixed provided you can remove it first.
Problem is that we don't know how it is attached to the arm nor what shape it has.

I had a similar problem with an older Campa carbon crank one that had the pedal spindle bonded to the insert (Ti to steel IIRC). Forcing the pedal spindle in the wrong direction dislodge the insert and eventally the pedal as well.
After that I epoxied the insert back into the arm and never had any problem with it since.

Since it seems to move a bit I suggest for Tinea to try and see if he can make it move around its own axis. If so then it can be solved.

Cheers,

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Fedegrove is right, I think it could be rebonded. My hunch is that it would be best to remove the round? spindle thread? from the crank arm, and after cleaning and reabrasiving? not really a word, ( but remaking an abrasive surface to rebond to, within the crankarm and on the alloy spindle thread) you should be able to make enough room within it to get a strong enough bonding, to make it work. Best of luck.
I believe there are certainly some very smart people on this forum, who are more than competent to help you out, Tinea.

Cheers
Austke

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I was surprised too, but the spline pattern is exactly the same for the removable spider they come with and the SRM spider. I have switched arms over on an SRM myself.

What type of SRM was this?

It happened to my FSA K-Force one this year. They replaced it on warranty. I think the trick is to run pedal washers from what I've been told. Better safe than sorry.

I think you can pick up a new K-Force NDS crank arm between $200 - $300 NZD.

SRAM.

Pedal washers were on as well.

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