Charles and all,
I would recommend finding an on-topic Phil Wood BB and Swiss rings (still available from Phil Wood at
The PW rings are not as deep as the standard cups, and allow all kinds of easy chain line adjustments, too. And they will save you all the ^&#$!@$^* involved with finding Swiss taps, grinding down your cups, and other tasks that I would want to avoid like the plague.
And with all the different parts manufcturers represented on Mondias "back in the day," a Swiss-threaded Phil BB will fit right in philosophically and conceptually, IMHO.
Jon Spangler a Phil Wood user and fan for almost 35 years in Alameda, CA USA
On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:59 PM, <classicrendezvous-
request@bikelist.org> <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org> wrote:
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:17:33 +0000
> From: Hugh Thornton <hughwthornton@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [CR] swiss bb tap help!
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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> This reminds me that I was going to ask if French BB thread taps
> are still available anywhere.? Does anybody know as I rather
> desperately need to retap a BB?
>
> With respect to Charles difficulties threading a cup in all the
> way, I have had this happen to me when the BB was only tapped
> enough to take a relatively shallow cup and I had to tap it further
> to get a deeper cup in.? In this case, if I could not get the right
> tap, I would be inclined to grind down the first few threads on the
> cup rather than force it in - I would rather modify an almost
> expendable cup than risk any damage to the frame.
>
> Hugh Thornton
> Cheshire, England
>
> --- On Tue, 27/10/09, Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> From: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>
> Subject: [CR] swiss bb tap help!
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Tuesday, 27 October, 2009, 15:17
>
> So, in the ongoing saga of this Mondia Special frame I bought in a
> moment of madness..I did find a swiss bb fixed cup (thanks Richard!)
>
> But, now, after much elbow-grease (basically, re-tapping the worn
> threads with the cup), I simply cannot get the cup to go on the
> last two mm or so.? I've been using the usual campagnolo cup-
> wrench, not the big shop-tool version.? I know that wrench is
> pretty much useless for anything more that a snug cup, but I have
> managed to use it to get the cup in almost tight.
>
> What I really need is to find someone--or a shop--that still has
> swiss taps..? Any suggestions??? Anyone know of a shop or person
> who would have a swiss tap so I can do this job right?? I really
> don't want to break out my VAR-copy cup tool and force the thing
> in, although I will if I can't find someone with the right tap.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
>
>
> "everyone has elites; the important thing is
> to change them from time to time."
>
> --Joseph Schumpeter, via Simon Johnson
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