Johan Bornman Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 Does anyone have a set of Italian thread dies and a reamer? I have to convert an English BB shell to an Italian one. Can anyone help?
Witkop Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 why the conversion? would it not be easier to just buy the correct BB?I am interested
Johan Bornman Posted August 28, 2013 Author Posted August 28, 2013 why the conversion? would it not be easier to just buy the correct BB?I am interestedThe BB is completely stripped. The customer allowed the thing to go from bad to terrible and there's no thread left. If I go Italian, I can ream it one mm bigger and rethread it for Italian. It's an old trick that seems to have died on with the framebuilders of yesteryear. We helped the customer once before by installing a theadless expanding BB from Orange Cycles (or Velo or whatever) but the quality of those BBs is very poor. Time for a proper solution. I must do this operation, it is on my bucket list.
johannrissik Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 From the title, I assumed this was going to be an obituary Maybe you wished it was, good luck.
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