Old-School bottom bracket, part two

http://www.cyclingforums.com/t/486672/cops-will-be-heroes-and-saviors-from-no...

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Education

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• bottom
• bracket
• one
• piece
• crank
• old
• style
• cruiser
• bike
• bicycle
• assembly
• service
• repair

[zeshybadboy]

I need new balls (the ones that go in the cage) any Idea where I can get them from please?

[ampdavolts]

@zeshybadboy, your local bicycle shop probably has them in a parts drawer, cheap,

otherwise, any online retailer, just send them a sample if you are not sure of the size.

There are only a few standard sizes for loose balls, and a bottom bracket uses XX (I forget the size).

[karoliunas350]

at about 6:15 thats the only crapy problem with these ''ONE PIECE CRANKS'' beecasue they just let water trhought and shit compare to 3 piece :D :D

[ampdavolts]

@karoliunas350, that's true, but it works and it's easy to service without bike shop tools.

[ampdavolts]

Forty years ago now, a dying old mechanic who started work in 1920, taught me to use a cold chisel to loosen a rounded lug nut impossible to wrench. It is an old principle of shock and vibration to loosen nuts. If you have a place to "purchase", like a slot on a chainwheel cone, use a soft metal "drift" so you won't damage the slot or the cone or make it ugly. HTH.

[2stroker125]

dude ! how do you take the sprocket off? i need to know asap anyone with the answe rplease tell me

[ampdavolts]

If you don't have the special "spanner" wrench, then do as I did one time: make a punch, a "drift" of soft metal like aluminum rod (The Home Depot) File it flat if it is a round, and make it have a flat edge to fit, at an angle, into one of the slots of the "nut" that holds the chainwheel. Tap hard, one slot, then the other side. Use penetrating oil. Tap, tap, tap, and you will loosen the nut an be able to unscrew it, no special wrench needed. For reinstall, same process in reverse.

[MrBmxface]

@megastunnerz. No that a one peice.

And to the guy in the video all u have to do to get rid if the play is tighten the cone nut a lil more and maybe grease it more so it'll spin a bit better. No offense or anything this was very good for your second time

Doing this.

[ryanheff123]

if u ever want to remove the sprocket u have to take a flat head screwdriver and a hammer and knock the notches in the cup so the cup turns anti clockwise

[pspslimhacks]

why do i have to loose the bearing a lil bit man? great turorial.

[zeshybadboy]

@ampdavolts ok thanks

[domtz11]

you sir are a legend;D

[wachakka]

Thanks man really insightful

[mrpcgamerrr]

it is possible and switch from old-school crank and stock to non old school crank and stock