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@Sheppz
So seeing as half term is about to be over... decided I better try and get this bike done - stupid as now I have only 3 days to do it before school starts again and I NEED a child carrying device. Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. Easy I thought - just strip it down Thursday night, clean it Friday night - Assembly can be squeezed in over the weekend and worst case I do a late one Sunday to get it at least rideable.
So I mixed myself a g and t - ordered a curry (thinking this will only take 45mins tops ) and broke out the tools. Predictably things did not go smoothly. Drive side crank threads were stripped. I tried various forum ideas on the subject - blowtorch, penetrating spray, hitting it in a variety of ways, riding around with the bolts off. Curry arrived. Shit then got a bit more ‘invasive’ hacksaw, Mole grips and my new pride and joy dewalt drill. Because it was an old chain set with rivets I had to snap the rings off using the mole grips and brute force. Then I hacksawed and drilled the fuck out of the alloy to make a slot into which I could get a screwdriver in to prize the bugger apart. Gradually it started to wiggle and then, bingo. Couple of pics for any perverts out there into this kinda filfth. Wierd old school cartridge bb situation then discovered - presume fitted in 94- plastic (or maybe glassfibre ?) cup on the drive side - steel on the non drive. Much effort to remove.