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Many many thanks for the helpful replies and advice. The LBS has just rung up to say that they have managed to get the bottom bracket out of the bike. The left hand crank was glued onto the axle and something else was completely corroded and rusted onto the axle. But with a bit of leverage and slightly warming things up with an axle grinder (!), the resin released its grip. As a CTC member i take the point about it is an open forum and caveat emptor, but all my past purchases of bits and pieces have until now been exemplary..but it beggars belief that people would glue cranks.

I bought a Giant Carbon frame bike on the CTC Complete Bikes Thread on 5 January 2014, and immediately took it my LBS for a full service. They recommended a new cassette, chain, outer ring on the Truvavix(?) chainset that the CTC member had fitted to 'upgrade' from a double. The spacings in the bottom bracket apparently are all wrong and the triple does not work BUT the threads on left hand crank have been stripped and glued back in with epoxy resin glue like Araldite.

I have emailed the CTC member who sold me the bike but no reply. The LBS and I would like to know how best to get the offending crank off the frame without damage to the frame and a replacement that actually works. Are there any non lifethreatening solution to release epoxy resin glue