Originally Posted by HillRider
By ISO did you mean (incorrectly) Italian threading?
One way to salvage an English threaded bottom bracket shell with badly damaged threads is to ream it slightly oversize and retap it to Italian threads. Maybe that's what was done in this case.
...But the O.P. said the English cup wouldn't fit in...Italian is considerably larger than English/ISO.
If you try to install an English/ISO cup in an Italian bottom bracket, the cup will just fall through, won't engage the threads a-tall.
It does sound as if he or she should have used the shorter spindle.
Sheldon "That's Not It" Brown
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