I have heard of some really crazy ideas about removing fixed cups from bottom brackets, I keep wondering why all of you just don't go out and buy either a Var, KingsBridge, Silva, or Campy BB fixed cup press and be done with it?
The Var is the most versatile since you can get it with several reversible dies that will fit most if not all of the manufactured BB cups in production. The Var tool is available from Mel Pinto Imports in Annandale, VA. The Kingsbridge tool can be bought from Performance tools in Yonkers, NY. The Silva tool can be bought from Joe Bringhelli Tools in Berea, Ohio and the Campy tool can be acquired from any of the Bicycle tool retailers out there.
Cheers,
Peter Koskinen Chapel Hill, NC
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of jerrymoos Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:49 PM To: Fred Rafael Rednor; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Stuck bb cup
Haven't got it unstuck but haven't destroyed it either. Still trying to find some Kroil locally.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Houston, TX
> > ...give a twist in the CORRECT direction...
> Isn't how this discussion started - trying to determine the
> correct direction? What seems to have become lost as this
> discussion progressed is that it began with the suggestion that
> perhaps there was not always a good way to distinguish between
> French and Swiss threaded fixed cups. So one needs to exercise
> some care and restraint.
> So to whomever wrote the original message (was it Jerry
> Moos?), I hope you managed to finally get your Peugeot's BB
> unstuck without destroying the frame.
> Bon soir,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
>
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