Oh for sure - one of the first things I do when I get an old abandoned frame is get that big nasty heavy old school bb out of there and replace it with a new style sealed bb.
Why spend an afternoon fiddling with loose bearings and cups and a clunkly spindle when you can have machines at a factory seal it all up perfectly for you ahead of time
Originally Posted by
3alarmer
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...one other thing that can help in this situation (where there is some thread damage, but still enough good thread remaining to simply rechase and install something new), is to use a sealed cartridge, rather than returning to an old school BB unit. If you picture it in your mind, you can see that a sealed unit will distribute the forces of the crank and spindle rotation differently, and a lot of the force gets focused through the internal races of the sealed unit over the entirety of the shell threading via whatever plastic caps you use to install it.
Just a thought in case you are interested.