Originally Posted by
Squeazel
What I would do, being a really cheap son of a gun with a bench grinder and a hacksaw:
Find a wrecked steel frame with a 68/24tpi BB, hacksaw out the bottom bracket, grind the nubs off until you have a cylinder. Grind a mm off each side of your BB. Epoxy the new BB right inside the old one- it looks like there's enough room. Wait 'till epoxy dries.
Hacksaw it back out again and repeat previous steps, 'cause you put it in wrong way round, with the left-hand threading on the wrong side (oh, wait a minute, you're not me... skip this step
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Install BB and crank. Ride.
YESS!!!
You did not think I was going to do it, did you?? I did as you said, a LOT of filing and grinding, but I did it!!
Realised the housing hole was not totally round, a part from the area prepaired for the cups. This is acctually ok, becouse when the job was done, when I could finally put the "new BB" thing innside it was just one way it would fit. This made me relax about the worry I had that maybe the Epoxy would fail and the BB starting to rotate. This is not going to happen!
BUT problem was not that I put it the wrong way around as you suggested, but when I put the epoxy and wanted to put it in place it was soo difficult becouse of the epoxy. I was running around the house looking for a hammer to hit the thing (I know, not smart to hit bearrings and so on), but could not find it. Went outside, placed it on one side , standing on the axel and that way managed to force it in place. Sometimes it is a blessing to be heavy
Acctually a friend suggested the same solution some time back, but I was soo much hoping for a better (easier) and more sofisticated solution, but now it is done. I`we been out riding the bike several times already, works just fine.
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