[CR] Jack Taylor BB oil/grease fitting?

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

From: <Stronglight49@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:02:45 EDT
Subject: [CR] Jack Taylor BB oil/grease fitting?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


The following photo is from the current eBay auction. Was this type of bottom bracket oil fitting common... and actually useful? They seem to have become largely abandoned by the 1960s, yet here is a bike from the early 1970s. Does any have personal experience maintaining a bike thus fitted?

http://i18.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/93/04/be8f_3.JPG

Bob Hanson, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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