Originally Posted by
tradtimbo
French it was. ... The fixed cup was on there too tough for a regular old fixed cup wrench, so I gave
Sheldon's tool and method a try. I have a 3/8" drive shaft socket wrench, so its a bit short. To get more torque I put a steel pipe over the wrench. This gave me a lever about 2.5' long. It took my full strength as far out on the lever as I could get before it came loose. Its an excellent tool. I've considered buying a fixed cup remover tool, but not any longer.
Interesting. I would have expected Swiss, but agree with the earlier comment that Sugino probably never made a hard metric LH thread fixed cup. I need to try Sheldon's technique on my mountain bike (ISO, LH thread) so that I can install a sealed cartridge BB.
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