I wouldn't wish that frame on anyone. I was informed that it was an old sears quality frame. Not worth my time or anyone elses. I destroyed the frame by standing on the dropouts with the frame on the ground. I did that so that nobody would pull it from the trash and go through the same crap I did. Not worth it.

But hey its all about learning. I also learned last night that if you don't fully thread a crank extractor, you'll strip the threads on the crank. I won't share my means of getting it off the spindle but it wasn't pretty, and involved partially disassembling the bottom bracket. Fortunately I'll be able to re-use these cranks and BB.