On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:39:35 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 3:48:50 PM UTC-4, cassiope wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:44:44 +0700, John B. wrote:

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:06:12 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

I was finally able to get the bottom bracket off of a friend's steel frame English threads bottom bracket bike. Whew what a job! The fixed cup cup was cross-threaded. He wants to put in a standard square-taper spindle cartridge bottom bracket. The problem is since the fixed cup was cross-threaded I can't get the new cartridge to thread in properly. Does a decent bicycle shop have a way to correct the cross-threaded threads in the bottom bracket shell? If so what's a ballpark price for doing it?

Thanks and cheers

Depending on how badly the threads are deformed it may be possible to
recut the threads sufficiently to install a new bottom bracket
bearing.

If that fails there are "threadless bottom brackets" that can be used
to repair it. Velo Orange, and probably others, sell them, see
http://store.velo-orange.com/index.p...-brackets.html

Ooohhh! Thanks! Never saw one of those before. We bought my son a used bike
(from a local used-gear store), only to discover recently that the right side's
threads were toast. He took it to a local bike shop - they charged him $100
for chasing the threads and replacing the good sealed bearing unit with a
crappy one that didn't even fit properly. In an act of desperation I drilled
and tapped a couple of setscrew holes and installed an old non-sealed hub that
kinda fit (threads still loose - just not enough metal left). This has worked
for a few months without any issues but eventually something like this threadless
version will probably be needed.

Again - thanks!

According to that manufacturer make sure your bottom bracket shell is no more than 68mm wide otherwise this threadless BB won't work.

Cheers

And the threaded bottom bracket standard seems to be 68mm for the
British, French, ISIS and Swiss bottom brackets. the Italian is 70mm.
In addition, the 'Bottom Bracket Tool' comes in two flavors. the
"Threading and Facing" Tool" or the "Facing Tool", so essentially any
shop that "does bottom brackets" has the ability of cutting the bottom
bracket a bit narrower, if necessary.
--
cheers,

John B.