Re: [CR]removing stuck cups was Swiss threads

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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:37:02 -0500
To: "Chris Ioakimedes" <chriseye@comcast.net>, "'Fred Rafael Rednor'" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>, "'jerrymoos'" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]removing stuck cups was Swiss threads

At 4:15 PM -0800 3/7/04, Chris Ioakimedes wrote:
>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

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