Originally Posted by
Wannashmooze
I know this is an old thread, im planning on doing this to avoid having my italian bb unscrew. I ordered a UN54 and guess what?? It came with a metal non-drive side cup! That should avoid the whole plastic cup problem on the drive side that happens when you flip a shimano cartridge bb.
Noted that you`re reserrecting this thread snd that your post is completely unrelated to the original post except in principal.
So the questions are:
(A) Did you work out an axle size that will maintain your chainline when you reverse the cartridge?
(B) Do you really think that driving with the resulting completly screwed up Q-factor on a continuous basis is a solid alternative to either LocTite on the threads of the bottom bracket or simply gropping the crank assembly on a regular basis and retorquing the BB assembly - or both?