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Assembling and disassembling everything off the bike a couple times and greasing any faces that need to come together or slide over each other might help?
So yesterday I ended up doing this on the bottom bracket a total of 6 times. There was a lot of swearing and patience I didn't know I have. Weirdly it seems a lot better now, although it's still not as tight as I'd like it but at least it seems tight enough not to unthread itself or fuck up the threads. There are some things you just can't explain...
Zebra
I've found those miche bbs can be a pain in the arse.
The two halves seem to fit together with a really close tolerance so they are more likely to jam up than say, a Shimano unit.
I think the technique that I came up with was to fit the cups either simultaneously or in small increments, ie don't do the driveside right in then try and fit the nds.
I think they'll also sometimes come apart more than is ideal so that instead of having just a nds cup on it's own and the rest of all lumped together to go in from the driveside you get the bearing stuck in the nds cup and then its a bugger to get that to slide onto the axle nicely.
Assembling and disassembling everything off the bike a couple times and greasing any faces that need to come together or slide over each other might help?