Originally Posted by
ebgbz
I told you i would be back. I heard from VO regarding their threadless bb and this is what they said:
"Hi Doug,
I don't know if ours would work or not. My suspicion is that it won't work. I think that due to the narrow nature of the shell, the BB might run out of threads when you tighten it, thus not allowing it to properly expand."
You can still get somebody to tap it slightly OS to Italian, I think, as was previously suggested.
Seriously, how valuable is this bike to you ? You could probably get a pretty good, tight BB cup
installation with red (high strength) loctite or even one of their bedding compounds, but you might
never get the cups out again. if you buy a pretty high quality sealed unit and slap it in there with
red loctite it will go for a long time......maybe longer than the rest of the bike or you.
Originally Posted by
ebgbz
here's the deal. I am replacing the crank and bottom bracket. The crank is going to be an FSA Gimondi and the BB is a RPM bb 7420. The both fit and think should be all OK in the alignment. I didn't plan to use the bb in any event. Now I just need to remove the fixed cup. The lbs looked at like I had "rocks in my head" when I asked about the removal. They said that it wouldn't be usable after the removal, Not a problem! I quess it's time to get out the NEW hacksaw blade and start cutting!