Hedging against future inflation rises.

Thanks for the encouragement. I was lying in bed, catatonic with depression after threading my barnoldswick wanker bearing cups. I had phoned my sister, who was asking if she should come over.

"You sound really down" she said.

I told her that if she understood the amount of frivolous spending that I'd done to end up here she would have no sympathy for me whatsoever.

Then whilst she was trying to talk to me I found someone on google who said that you can basically rethread things with a triangle needle file, which is a tool I have for some reason. Spent a bit of time running it through the threads to tidy them and used a rag to help me turn the cup by hand instead of resorting to the bracket tool and managed to do it.

I really hope my LBS don't read this forum because if it starts to creak I'll be taking it to them and claiming I have no idea who fitted it.