I know it isnt quite a motering question but where would I get my exercycle fixed!The pedal has come off and screwed the thread on the arm so I cannot re attach it.is the a mechanic job or somewhere else!TIA
cuda.340,
Nov 28, 12:35pm
you can buy stainless steel thread inserts from Saeco. they come with the drill & tap to repair your stripped aluminium threads. i use them on my aluminium race engine with great success.
trader_84,
Nov 28, 12:35pm
Any engineering shop. Not all mechanics will have a tap set. A tap is what will need to be run up in the old thread to make it workable again. If the arm is alum then you might end up having to run locktite in with the new thread due to it being flogged out and therefore weaker than when first built. Depending on how badly the hole is flogged out - you might have to utilize an insert. What ever way you choose to go - ask how much first.
trader_84,
Nov 28, 12:36pm
Given up using U-hoo!
pepperanne,
Nov 28, 12:41pm
ok thanks the first half or the thread is almost flat but the inside half is fine.
shinra,
Nov 28, 12:41pm
hope u dont have much of a thread to tap out might have a wonky pedal otherwise lol bit of a knack to it
jmma,
Nov 28, 12:44pm
Maybe a L/H thread as well (o:
msigg,
Nov 28, 5:29pm
call the manufacturer. google is your friend.
intrade,
Nov 28, 7:02pm
what exactly is it we have tryed to fix one where the pedal is something like a stepper type thing not like bicicle. and its impossibile to fix that the whoe materials used to make the arm was junk just broke out and stripped the expensive machined part again 5 minutes after . So unless its actuarly made from propper materials it be not worth it. We would have had to reingeneer the whole controll arm to fix that and that was to mutch. and that was in a european workshop with cnc machines at our hands.
Can you take the pedal off and drill a hole through the arm!
Then put a long bolt through the food pedal and tighten it up with a bolt and washer and the other side of the arm!
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