Re: [CR]help! zeus w/ 35xP1 bb threads

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:17:33 -0500
To: "chuck taylor" <phatswag@comcast.net>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]help! zeus w/ 35xP1 bb threads


charles taylor wrote:
>My zeus has a bad fixed bb cup that I need to remove but don't know the
>handed-ness of the thread. The sugino bb cups both say 35xP1, which I've
>never heard of.

35 x 1 designates both French and Swiss threading, the difference being in the "handedness" of the fixed cup.

French fixed cups=right (wrong)

Swiss fixed cups=left (right)

I've never heard of Zeus using Swiss, I'd bet it's French, righty-tighty on both sides.

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