Originally Posted by
oneclick
If those are your criteria, the left-most pink should be blue as there is flaking you can't quite see either side of it - and it's much deeper than the one you do have blue.
I took it out because I could feel it (when turned without the canks attached).
If you can feel it, it's time. Most of the stuff like that people over react to though.
I used to work for an old boy would would chuck them up in his lathe and regrind the races, lol.
If you want a better axle, get one that's machined rather than hot forged and swaged.
Better yet, a cartridge bottom bracket