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I've had a look on eBay but there doesn't seem to be many options I must admit.
Do you have an appropriate chainset for the bike. I think it deserves something special, as you have gone to all the trouble of fitting the Cambio gear.
I know Bayliss Wiley have deep cups and they do a BB set with a sleeve which works on frames with damaged bracket threads. Whether they do an Italian size or whether you could get something similar from another brand I'm not sure.
I will keep an eye out
Excellent by the way can you tell us more about the frame?
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Falconvitesse is right - this is a special machine and it deserves special treatment.
I think the statement above that 'the shell seems to have tapered ' is misleading - surely it has splayed out; that's to say the right hand side has become enlarged. This is not a rare problem - I remember being in Ken Ryall's workshop and going through a box of assorted BB cups looking for a slightly larger one - Ken claimed the diameters varied slightly.
If I'm correct in thinking that the shell has stretched, a deeper cup will not solve the problem because although it may be tight in the thread at its inner end, it will still be loose at the outside end of the shell. Surely this is where most of the stress occurs and the result will be more movement and more stretching.
A technique which is proven to work in this situation is what I will call The Dave Russell Method.
Braze a collar onto the underside of the bracket shell, hacksaw a cut through the shell and the collar, refit the cup, insert a bolt through the collar and tighten, thus clamping the shell onto the cup. Touch in the burnt paint and you're ready for that Alpine tour or road race victory!
Of course, there may well be less drastic methods that I don't know about, but this will get you back on the road as a last resort.
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Well it's a 1947 benneto that got exported to Argentinawhere it got the argentian chainset and brake levers from hell.
I really need to find some universal brake levers. I do have a stronglight square taper from the 60s which could go on. To be honest while the andel chainset is not period it looks fine and the modern bb makes it rideable. I do ride it regularly about once a week now.
I have a hatred of cotterpins and I was around in 1947 I would have fitted a square taper crank as soon as I could. My hatred of cotter pins extends to before I was born. Anyway I gave the old chainset axles and cups away to a russian. No use for them so hopefully he has.I just like riding it. Oh the other thing I need is bottle cages.
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Anyone got any cambio corsa long levers. Mine are short.
Are there such a thing as fixed cups which are as deep as the DS cup on a modern square taper. For italian thread. On my Benetto iha e haste fit an andel chainset and shimano square taper bb as the old cottered bb cup would not stay in placem the shell seems to have tapered over the years and a deeper cup is required now.
The other option is a stronglight 49d.
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