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Title: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Gaffers on 30 December 2012, 22:26:53
The training programme for this year starts tomorrow so I decided to strip the road bike and get it ready for the season.  I noticed the bottom bracket was buggered so I went to get a new one.  After drooling over the end of year deals and deciding I cannot a new bike I got home and went to work on removing a bracket which had not been removed for several years (oops)

After a while I managed to get one side of the bracket off but the other would move even though I was putting all my not inconsiderable weight through it.   tried plus gas and heat, hammer, you name it it would move a mm and stop.  At this point I was hurting my hand so I sat down and looked online for 'bottom bracket seized advice' and came across a how-to.......

......have a guess at what I was doing wrong.
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Andy B on 30 December 2012, 22:30:21
left hand thread  ::)
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Gaffers on 30 December 2012, 22:32:06
Yup I was tightening the flecking thing.  I ended up taking the whole frame to work and using the removal tool in a vice.

D'oh!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Andy B on 30 December 2012, 22:36:01
Yup I was tightening the flecking thing.  I ended up taking the whole frame to work and using the removal tool in a vice.

D'oh!  ;D ;D ;D

Oh well! A lesson learned ...... I think we've all done similar at some stage.  ;) ;) ;)

A while ago at work, a couple of us were swinging off 48" Stilsons under a can filler trying to undo a rotary coupling ........ another look at the new one we had reminded us it also had a left hand thread!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: feeutfo on 30 December 2012, 22:57:38
Spent a little while trying to knock a wheel baring out of an omega front hub once ::)
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Andy B on 30 December 2012, 23:01:34
Spent a little while trying to knock a wheel bearing out of an omega front hub once ::)

You just weren't trying properly!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: feeutfo on 30 December 2012, 23:10:20
Clearly not Mr P  :D
Title: Re: Please read the manual - A Lesson
Post by: Andy B on 30 December 2012, 23:15:01
Clearly not Mr B  :D

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