[CR]Stuck bb cup

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:44:07 +0900
From: "Dennis Young" <mail@woodworkingboy.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
In-Reply-To: <CATFOODqGN5q2lTQmZx0000002f@catfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Stuck bb cup

So Sheldon, what do you do when it comes down to your last technique to get the *&>.%$ loose? Teach us some Latin swear words too.

Dennis Young Hotaka, Japan


>> The following is my "when all else fails" technique for removing stuck
>> cups. I braze a 1 inch nut onto the side of the cup, then remove the cup
>> with a large 1 inch box wrench or socket. It works every time.
>> Afterwards the nut can be removed from the cup with a little heat from
>> the torch.
>
> That seems unnecessarily drastic and risky.
>
> See: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/bbcups.html
>
> Sheldon "No Torch Needed" Brown
> Newtonville, Massachusetts
> +