Re: [CR]Stuck adjustable cup

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Stuck adjustable cup
To: Classicrendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20080930132249.01740ac8@mailhost.oxford.net>


sounds like he got he adjustable cup out. if the race in the cup looks fine i'd just clean it up a bit with the cup in the BB and then rebuild.

you might try the trick with the arrangement of washers that are on a bolt that goes through the bb and the cup. the washers bolt down and hold your wrench onto the cup so it won't slip off.

pb blaster penetrating oil might help too. i have a small jar with some pb blaster in it to soak nuts or bearings in cages in..they come out very clean.

Jeff Piwonka
Austin, Texas, USA


--- On Tue, 9/30/08, John Betmanis wrote:


> From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Stuck adjustable cup

\r?\n> To: "Classicrendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:22 PM

\r?\n> At 09:57 AM 30/09/2008 -0700, Pat Moffat wrote:

\r?\n> >I recently traded for a Waterford Paramount, and I am

\r?\n> unable to budge

\r?\n> >the adjustable cup. The lock ring came off after much

\r?\n> coaxing, and it

\r?\n> >had some kind of gunk in the threads (locktite?). I

\r?\n> thought about

\r?\n> >rigging up some kind of clamp to hold the pin wrench

\r?\n> firmly against the

\r?\n> >cup so I could strike it with a hammer but I'm

\r?\n> thinking it would shear

\r?\n> >the pins. I keep applying penetrating oil to the

\r?\n> threads hoping to

\r?\n> >soften the gunk, but so far it hasn't helped.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Do you care if you damage the adjustable cup? If not, you

\r?\n> could try a big

\r?\n> pipe wrench on it. Have you (or can you) removed the fixed

\r?\n> cup. If so, you

\r?\n> could try the Sheldon Brown nut-and-bolt method on th

\r?\n> adjustable cup,

\r?\n> clamping the threaded end of the bolt in a bench vise.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> John Betmanis

\r?\n> Woodstock, Ontario

\r?\n> Canada