I've never had this problem, but then I've not put more than about 2-3K miles on the ones mounted on production frames. (One was already very old when I installed it.) As for the Phils on the 2 custom Rivs, one has ~ 5500 miles and the other ~9,500, and both feel as they did when new. The third: I forget how many, but it was on a Waterford Riv and racked up many good miles without problem.
The other chichi bbs I used -- Sampson, Am Classic, Grafton, Syncros, at least one other whose name I forget but Perf sold it for a while -- did not call for this task in their instructions; and again, no problems, at least in 2-3K miles. So, I expect this is one of those situations where half the user population had problems while the other half did not. Thank God I seem to fall into the latter category. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, MichaelH <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't remember seeing this on the Phil Wood Web site, nor the > required tool. If it's that critical Phil ought to be selling a > simple tool to check it. What about other cartridge bb, like White or > King? Do they have the same sensitivities? > > Michael > Westford, Vt > > On Feb 6, 10:20 am, John McMurry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter White has said before that premature failure of a Phil bottom > > bracket is due to the bottom bracket shell threads not being aligned. > > > > Here's an excerpt from one of these discussions: > > > > "For a Phil Wood BB to last, the frame's BB threads must be chased > > with a > > tool that indexes one side of the shell with the other so that the > > threads on each side share a common axis. Campagnolo and a few other > > companies make tooling that, when used properly, ensures that the > > threading is correct, and then, and only then, will you get the full > > life of the Phil Wood bearings." > > > > from here: > > > > http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=touring.10709.0545.eml > > > > Makes sense to me. > > > > John McMurry > > Burlington, VT > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
