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Paul Willis
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    @Stuart Firth said:
    I can’t give an answer but I’m interested if anyone else knows it! With an 08 or 2 in the pipeline, I don’t trust the plastic Gibson cranks and am looking for an alternative. Markits now advertise ‘solderless keyed outside cranks’ which look a proper job and I’m assuming they are self-quartering although it doesn’t say. 3 styles of crank which look very nice too. The only problem there is that you have to use their wheels with the redundant crank boss, which I don’t really want to do.

    Colour me confused…

    If you’re building an 08, then aren’t the driving wheels inside the outside frames? And therefore completely invisible, to all intents and purposes?

    Unless you’re planning on “getting it all right”, as someone else used to say.

    Cheers
    Paul Willis