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@PatChurch
as ppl said above, only keep them if your trying to be symathetic to the bikes age. My experience as a mechanic tells me that they are fine until you have a problem then they fucking suck! especially if you hope to work on your own bike. Also as Edmundro says most stuff available readily now is of pretty rubbish quality and the rest will probably be NOS and therefore generally exorbitantly expensive. For reliability just change up to a regular tapered design, a bb will only cost you £10-20.