Yikes, that is indeed scary, but FWIW, I've heard of spindle fractures on many brands, cheap and expensive (including Phil, Tange, SKF), but those catastrophic failures seem so rare that I didn't include them when mentioning reliability. I wouldn't exclude using a brand that someone had such a failure with.
On Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:15:00 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 11/29/2014 09:58 AM, Anton Tutter wrote: > > > I'm also surprised at the number of Phil Wood complaints. I also wonder > if most of the complaints are directed at their hub product line, because > *the > only real thing that can go wrong with their BBs is the bearings-*- there > are no other moving parts! Since they don't manufacture their own bearings > but use standard bearings (of which they source very high quality ones from > the Japanese mfr NTN), the reliability of their BBs should be no better or > worse than any other brand that uses similarly high quality bearings. > > > Absolutely incorrect. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
