Brian Bailys wrote.
> I realize that parhaps most home mechanics don't have a bottom bracket
> cup tool, but in my opinion if you're a vintage person; if you have only
> one professinal tool in your collection it should be a good bb cup tool.
> Main reason is that at that point you clamp the tool in the solidly
> mounted vice and use the frame for leverage to tighen the cup. A BB cup
> wrench is probably your frames' worst enemy. I've seen more funny (not
> humorous funny)stuff happen with bb wrenches than everything else put
> together. I haven't used a bb cup wrench since my first campy tool case
> in 1974. The fixed cup holder is certainly in the top three tools
> usagewise in my collection. Worth looking into.
>
On the topic of bb, cup wrenches I can second, -and add the following to
Brian, on this one. Having worked in the bicycle trade from I was 12, to I
was 26, (I am now 39 and doing else, apart from enjoying riding, and
building frames on an amateur basis) I have due to "Skinny" wrenches
"cutting into your hand, had long term damage done to my right hand, and
have had surgery twice. (cutting out "stone hard" tissue from my palm, after
my fingers has curled) So bee careful with al those awful skinny
wrenches...! I have even cut my cone wrenches in two and installed round
handles on them..
Dag Riise
Norway.