Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...yeah. My co-op here saves a bunch of stuff that should have been thrown out long ago, too.
On that we
should be able to agree. Lots of volunteers who don't know anything about what they are doing and not enough people who do know what they are doing to supervise them.
That said, my point is that very few of the cartridge bottom brackets that get salvaged in my co-op are bad. The same cannot be said of the loose bearing bottom brackets. And it's not because we get fewer of the former and more of the latter or that people are more prone to throwing out cartridge BB.