Originally Posted by
grizzly59
From reading the link from Surly, it sounds like everything is faced before painting, so scraping the paint gets everything back to square.
I have read that if you are careful and gentle, you can use a razor blade to remove the paint there if it needs to be even done.
I have no experience with expensive stuff with highly critical bearings that could work in an SR-71.
A $25 dollar Shimano XT BB-MT800 is going in there. Nothing that special.