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Deefor62
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Just bought a 111mm campag centaur BB to go with some DA7600 cranks.
The BB is slightly different than many cartridge units in as much that the spindle/bearing assembly isn't attached to the right side cup.
Instructions say install DS cup and tighten to 70nm.
Shove cartridge in NDS until bearings locate in DS cup.
Install NDS cup and tighten to 70nm.
There's a caveat that says if tightening to 70nm increses friction too much, to back out the NDS cup, apply threadlock and re-tighten to 30nm.
Now, even at 50nm the cup is obviously applying way too much pressure to the bearings and the spindle is notchy as hell to rotate. Even at 30nm it's notchy.
Basically anything over hand tight applies too much pressure. I would not be at all happy riding this with the NDS cup finger tight with threadlock.
Has anyone any suggestions?
I've read of this exact same problem happening to others but no solutions. I'm guessing I'll just return the whole BB as faulty and use a cheaper one for now. Either that or just bite the bullet and use a JIS and hope for the best....