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Old 02-26-06 | 09:55 AM
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Cyclist0094
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Originally Posted by number6
The shop I worked for sold a number of them, they forced the shop to buy a Campagnolo tool kit as the Bottom bracket shells were often distorted, requiring retapping and facing of the shell to get anything other than a Phil Wood bottom bracket to work well. Great paint, not so good build quality, a friend had crashed one and the exposed miters upon tube replacement were not top notch.
That said, quality was variable, some later ones are nice. Sold my '74 about a year after I got it, inflation kept the loss to a minimum, great chrome, its replacement handled so much better.
I had a new 1980 Bob Jackson frame that came with the BB so distorted it couldn't be retapped. I contacted the factory and they sent me a terse letter about how their BB shells are of the highest quality and insisted the postal service or my LBS had damaged it. We used a torch and a tail pipe expander to get it round enough to retap and install a Phil Bottom bracket on. After that experince I made my own frames.
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