Originally Posted by
griffin_
how were they stripping hubs?
the old steel vs alum?
The old Surly cogs had a slightly non-standard thread pitch.
And as for the BBs (Shimano, Tange, Truvativ, Campagnolo and Sugino):

These bottom brackets have two things in common. They are all square taper, and neither came with any instructions. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it never happened to me.