Grease or Loctite on BBs?

tony R said:

The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike now so thought I'd check the
Park Tools site for hints. Park reckon Loctite should be
used on the threads unless there's plastic involved. Which
do people here use?

Plastic Is Involved on mine and I use grease.

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Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Tony R
The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike now so thought I'd check the
Park Tools site for hints. Park reckon Loctite should be
used on the threads unless there's plastic involved. Which
do people here use?

thanks,

tony R.

I got plastic outers and so I used some grease.

What does Sheldon Brown say on the subject?

tony R said:

The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike now so thought I'd check the
Park Tools site for hints. Park reckon Loctite should be
used on the threads unless there's plastic involved. Which
do people here use?

thanks,

tony R.

The last time I fitted a cartridge BB I added neither
glue nor grease. The shell was sufficiently greasy from
the old cups.

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:08:28 +0100, "tony R" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike now so thought I'd check the
Park Tools site for hints. Park reckon Loctite should be
used on the threads unless there's plastic involved. Which
do people here use?

Plastic cups, thin smear of normal grease. Metal cups, thin
smear of coppa-slip.
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tony R said:

The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike now so thought I'd check the
Park Tools site for hints. Park reckon Loctite should be
used on the threads unless there's plastic involved. Which
do people here use?

I use grease or anti-seize. I think threadlock is only
necessary on BBs that have already proved troublesome or
those that won't be fully tightened for whatever reason.

~PB

Definitely grease, I tried loctite once and only once!
Everything was fine for a while until the bottom bracket
bearing failed and I had to replace it, WOW, a combination
of loctite x good old British weather, that as ever gets
into the frame, = SOLID

It took 3 adults and a 4foot long bar on the end of the
wrench a good couple of hours to undo it, just before it
did finally give I had accepted the destruction of the
frame. Fortunately the frame was salvageable but the Dura-
ace bottom bracket [which is normally serviceable] was a
right off.

Loctite at your peril or if you do not intend keeping
the frame.

"tony R" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The only time I've installed a (cartridge) bottom bracket
previously I slapped a load of grease on the threads. I'm
moving it to my other bike

now

Quoted message said:

so thought I'd check the Park Tools site for hints. Park
reckon Loctite should be used on the threads unless
there's plastic involved. Which do people here use?

thanks,

tony R.

Dave Chadderton said:

Definitely grease, I tried loctite once and only once!
Everything was fine for a while until the bottom bracket
bearing failed and I had to replace it, WOW, a combination
of loctite x good old British weather, that as ever gets
into the frame, = SOLID

It took 3 adults and a 4foot long bar on the end of the
wrench a good couple of hours to undo it, just before it
did finally give I had accepted the destruction of the
frame. Fortunately the frame was salvageable but the Dura-
ace bottom bracket [which is normally serviceable] was a
right off.

There is more than one grade of Loctite. Perhaps you used
one of the more permanent ones!

~PB

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Quoted message said:

Dave Chadderton said:

Definitely grease, I tried loctite once and only once!
Everything was fine for a while until the bottom bracket
bearing failed and I had to replace it, WOW, a
combination of loctite x good old British weather, that
as ever gets into the frame, = SOLID

It took 3 adults and a 4foot long bar on the end of the
wrench a good couple of hours to undo it, just before it
did finally give I had accepted the destruction of the
frame. Fortunately the frame was salvageable but the Dura-
ace bottom bracket [which is normally serviceable] was a
right off.

There is more than one grade of Loctite. Perhaps you used
one of the more permanent ones!

~PB

Thanks for all the replies. Grease it is then. That's what I
had assumed. It's just that the Park Tools website just
looks (and generally is) so bloody authoritative that I
didn't want to ignore it without backup.

tony R.