On that stupid stuff Campag puts on UT BB cup threads!
 

Just venting. That hard cream colored looking compound is annoying. It mostly scrapes off, mixes with the grease I'm using and makes a mess. I would rather they just leave the threads bare like everyone else so we can apply our own thread prep. Why do they think this is necessary?

I have installed 2 sets of those cups, one set silver colored, the other the green color and the green ones had that stuff. It pissed me off too. I assume it’s a thread locker but was gritty, hard, and impossible to remove. I partially stripped the installation notches torqueing the cups to install and when finished they looked like they had been ridden 1000 miles already.

I’m glad someone else brought this up. I always thought mine were a one off.

ive experienced the same. Isnt the threadlocker useless if it dries before installation?

Coming soon - Silca StripChip for Campy bottom brackets.

HAHAHA
and I always thought it was me...

thank you for confirming that it isn't! ...

A thread locker is anything that takes up space and increases friction in the threads. so a dried compound can act as a thread locker. Take for example, nyloc nuts, which use a solid piece of nylon:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...n_Lock_Nut.png

I always brush the threads clean on new UT cups before install. They cake that stuff on there so thick it can cause binding.

I must be a bad mechanic because I smeared grease over the threads and installed the cups. The first UT cups I installed in 2006 were Aye-talian and the DS backed out on the test ride. I relied on the gunk campy puts on the threads. After that, grease and gorilla torque. I've always been able to remove the cups.

Argument for Shimano?

I haven't messed with it lately but I remember thinking sometimes it was easier to remove than others. I used to use a wire brush but decided it was easier using a knife blade and cleaning the threads with that.

I’ve always been in the “must be Italian!” camp and just greased the frame, oomphed through the Campy sludge and been done with it.

On the other hand I assumed the threadlocker kept my far superior Italian threaded cup from backing out.

I did that once on a newer Colnago...turned out to have British threads. :(

Yes, my rant above was on an English thread Colnago EPS - probably the real reason I was so bitter.

i use an x-acto blade to remove all of it and then liberally grease the threads.

after i smoke a cigarette, i install the cups into a liberally greased bb shell.

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