Re: [CR]Tricks for removing Fixed cup?

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:40:29 -0500
To: losgatos_dale@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tricks for removing Fixed cup?

Dale B. Phelps wrote:
>It's been in there forever, you know what I mean, for 35 years (the
>frame sn indicates 1970.) easy. And to top it off, its campi, so I
>don't wanna bugger the thing up. And its Italian, AND the frame is
>chrome. OK, given those variables, whats a schlubb to do to actually
>remove the thing??

See: http://sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/bbcups.html

Being Italian, it'll be right hand thread, tighten the nut inside the cup to remove it.

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