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Bottom Bracket Fitting Help Needed

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perry:
id personally use a liberal amount of grease too , moose what would you use ?

use a long rotating stroke along the file to prevent making angled edges on the cup

Moose:
Grease is a great idea. I always use it when installing any cups (headset or BB) - longterm it will prevent them from rusting in.

Personally, I now use a vice with soft jaws for the installation of cups. If you have a 'black & decker workmate' it'll do the job just fine  :daumenhoch:

Waxintaxin:
my nos quads BB was oval lol and it took a vice ,greese and a lot of alligning cups to frme , it went in fine ,and my  redline 400 BB fell into the floval ? go figure i bet the same cups out a different packet would be as good as machining the ones you have

Rich 

Paulo:


Thanks for your help guys. Moose, that bolt is identical to the one I normally use. Let the washers bend!!! :LolLolLolLol:

I do fancy getting a big f-off vice. Boys toys

steve Beech TA:
My BB's were very tight, i put some grease on them and put them in with a rubber mallet, the first one i did not do this and i was scratching my head for ages as i could not get it to fit, i was hitting it that hard i thought here we go it will crack in a min, then when i put the grease on themp it still took a bit of firm tapping but it did slide in a treet it was carlube EP2 lithium grease.

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