Campagnolo ultra-torque bb tool

Just a quick question, do I need to buy the Campag ultra-torque bearing cup installation tool;

Or is just screwing them in by hand sufficient? Has anyone got any experience with this?

Don't really feel like paying £25 if I don't need to.

The manual I got with mine recently said to screw them in by hand and use Loctite 222. It also said you can forego the loctite and do it up to a pretty hefty torque. Pretty sure this is the tool I used:

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/shimano/bottom-bracket-tool-for-fcm960-ec009777?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=froogle&utm_campaign=froogle

what is your frame? mine is a cento 1 and you don't need this tool at all..

Cheers thanks for clarifying that Butters, I didn't realise it wasn't a specialised tool! Problem solved.

The tool pattern is the same as the one for other external BBs such as Shimano, SRAM, FSA etc.

If you have a free evening, read all the pros and cons of the two available methods, hand-tight with Loctite or 40Nm with anti-seize grease. Campagnolo themselves have changed their mind at least once over which is preferred.

I went with the grease / wind it up option because I am the sort of person that is happy to do a rebuild every few months. I also had no loctite. No idea if I have made the right choice.

I've got four* torqued in (all metal frames) and one snugged up with Loctite (carbon frame with bonded-in BB sleeve). With a fleet that size, none of them has really had enough mileage to come to conclusions about the relative merits of the two methods.

*was five until I got rid of the Koga

Perhaps the dawn of carbon frames is the reason they started to recommend hand tight? Mine is Ti so I didn't have to worry about torque overload too much.

I think the reasoning actually relates to allowing the two bearing cups to self-align little bit in BB shells which are not completely straight, so it's not directly a frame-material issue.

And the loctite holds them straight. I gets ya!