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On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 9:20:16 AM UTC-5, stevef wrote:
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> I have for sale a Phil Wood bottom bracket spindle, steel, 108mm length,
> with stainless steel, English threaded rings, polished press-in mud guards,
> and a pair of installation tools. I had this installed on my
I have a Phil BB on my Rambouillet that I purchased in 05. It's never
been touched. Last weekend on a long ride it started clicking. I
don't feel anything - just an annoying cricket-like sound on every
stroke. I've never had a BB go bad before and most of my experience
has been with old
What is it about Phil BBs that, when cranked down hard they fail, yet
Shimano BBs (UNxx) when cranked down hard are fine?
Does Shimano have this little feature under patent?
Bob
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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
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 06:38 -0800, JoelMatthews wrote:
Before I've used the old fashioned kind with annual cleaning re-packing
with Phil's grease (really sticky stuff; does not wash out), have never had
any problem. I have 20+ year old BBs that are still good.
7K seems low unless it's
this has also happened to me. twice.
first time, i thought maybe the bb shell wasn't properly machined, so
I had the threads chased and made sure that would no longer be an
issue.
the second time I detected premature wear (same bike/bb shell), the
advice I got regarding installation was to
I will have break down and finally buy a Bicycling Magazine again.
Been years.
Thanks for pointing out the saddles are VO. I did not look closely
and just assumed they were Brooks. I understand Mike is working hard
to keep the price below $2k. VO saddles fit the bill.
A Hillbourne similarly
This has happened to me (on my canti-rom, coincidentally), and now I
favor Shimano UN-54 BBs, which tend to last a long time. I can get six
of those for the price of one Phil. Just the Phil replacement bearings
cost more than the Shimano BB, so I can't quite understand the long-
term value of
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
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
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