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[Gaffers]

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.

[Andy B]

left hand thread 

[Gaffers]

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! 

[Andy B]

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! 

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! 

[feeutfo]

Spent a little while trying to knock a wheel baring out of an omega front hub once

[Andy B]

Spent a little while trying to knock a wheel bearing out of an omega front hub once

You just weren't trying properly! 

[feeutfo]

Clearly not Mr P 

[Andy B]

Clearly not Mr B