I actually thought about doing this as well. I ended up deciding on a Cross-Check instead, for the dropout reasons. It didn't make sense to me to spend a minimum of $150 for an eccentric BB from a company I'd never heard of.

I kind of feel like the LHT is designed for a single particular way of doing things, and it just seems silly to me to try to make it do something else, when Surly makes another frame that's designed to handle any number of ways of doing things.