Originally Posted by
SpikedLemon
Quick update: it was near-welded in by the factory by being very badly cross threaded. Whoever installed it HAD to have known what they did. The threads on the non-drive side are, sadly, destroyed (either from initial installation or from my removal).
Well... There goes that frame. Maybe one will pop up on goodwill
It was a cheap bike that gave me ~10 years of it's time (that being said: I think I've ridden my new road bike more miles this year that I did ever my MTB)
The frame threads can probably be cleaned up. Take the frame to a bike shop, ask them to chase and face the BB - takes less than 5 minutes. If the frame is steel, the thread in the frame is a lot stronger than the treads of the BB cups.
If the frame is aluminum, VO and Sunlite (Niagara Cycle has them) make BB for installation into frames with striped BB threads. The Sunlite ones are very reasonably priced.
I used a motor tool (Dremel equivalent) with a cutoff wheel to get an old cro-mo cup out of a Trek 950. Took the frame over to Wheel Away in Campbell, they ran their Park Tool thru the BB, chased and faced. No issues.