Current Projects chat and miscellany

Finally put a group on and roughly cabled my Orbit America.

Thoughts:

1. The gear outers rise sharply up out of the shifters. Is this normal? I have to put quite a kink in them to get them running smoothly along the bar.
   
2. One BB cup does that horrible thing where once I tighten it past a certain point it clunks and goes one thread looser. I've tightened it up to the point just before it clunks, which is definitely under torque. I'm guessing the threads on either the cups or the frame are pooped, but they didn't look too bad. I might have cross-threaded it but haven't managed to do that ever before. Will Locktite be my best option for a bodge or should I give up and throw it all in a bin?