3wheeler7
rBotM Winner
Hi, I didn't actually mention in my last post that the BB is now built up correctly and with no excessive play in the threads.
I'd thought of all sorts of possible scenarios but didn't come up with a plausible answer until I attempted to fit a different LH thread drive side fixed cup into the drive side - and it fitted correctly and perfectly. So I then tried the original fixed cup and that also fitted perfectly.
I then tried to refit both of the original cups wrongly (the way they were fitted when I got the frame) and after a bit of jiggling they both went in.
So alls well that ends well and the BB is now correctly built up, but I'm still amazed that the cups can be fitted into the wrong sides, i.e a LH thread cup into a RH thread and vice versa.
Did you ever check your Raleigh to see if you could fit the cups into their correct sides - or did you just accept it as it was?
I'd thought of all sorts of possible scenarios but didn't come up with a plausible answer until I attempted to fit a different LH thread drive side fixed cup into the drive side - and it fitted correctly and perfectly. So I then tried the original fixed cup and that also fitted perfectly.
I then tried to refit both of the original cups wrongly (the way they were fitted when I got the frame) and after a bit of jiggling they both went in.
So alls well that ends well and the BB is now correctly built up, but I'm still amazed that the cups can be fitted into the wrong sides, i.e a LH thread cup into a RH thread and vice versa.
Did you ever check your Raleigh to see if you could fit the cups into their correct sides - or did you just accept it as it was?