Originally Posted by
Pars
Being a Fiorelli, this is probably Italian threaded BB. If you have no good reason to remove it, then I wouldn't.
yeah my decision was to leave it go - i cleaned it up as best i could from the other side - the other cup was in good shape as well
so the italian thread on the fixed side would be left to loosen am i correct? if that is the case then my efforts ended up tightening the cup a bit which is fine since i am not going to be removing it at this time