Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Gaffers on 30 December 2012, 22:26:53
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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.
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left hand thread ::)
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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
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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
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Spent a little while trying to knock a wheel baring out of an omega front hub once ::)
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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
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Clearly not Mr P :D
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Clearly not Mr B :D
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