Originally Posted by
Fred Smedley
I am not sure on how the threading "looseness" was initiated, from the factory or from running the BB with the fixed cup too loose. It does not appear terminal , I just want it as tight as possible when I torque the new sealed BB.
I've had a few Raleigh's from that era with the same problem, but in my cases the threading was DOA, luckily there's such things as threadless BB's, fortunately for you it doesn't sound like you need that solution.