Theoretically yes, you'd use 4mm of spacers, but that may be too much to be able to safely thread the BB in sufficiently into the BB shell. I've spaced out BBs before, but never more than 2mm. So you may have to live with an symmetrical cartridge just spaced +2mm. Maybe others have spaced further and had good luck, but I can't comment on the feasibility or reliability.
Anton On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 7:26:59 PM UTC-4, Tim Gavin wrote: > > Anton- > > The original XT M-730 spindle is offset 4 mm to the drive side. Do I use > ~4mm of bottom bracket spacers? Or do I split the difference and use ~2 mm? > > Tim Gavin > Cedar Rapids, IA > > On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 7:50:22 PM UTC-5, Anton Tutter wrote: >> >> Depends. The new VO BB will be symmetric, while your BBM730 will be >> drive-side offset. So in fact with the new BB the drive-side may be >> further inboard and the non-drive side further outboard. You can add a >> spacer to the drive side to even it up if necessary (with the right spacer, >> you can recapitulate the offset, and each side will be inboard by 0.25mm-- >> not even noticeable), but an overall 0.5mm difference, would not be an >> issue. >> >> Anton >> >> >> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 8:32:22 PM UTC-4, Tim Gavin wrote: >>> >>> One issue: the original spindle is 124.5 mm. The closest replacement I >>> could find was a 124 mm from VO. When I install it, the non-drive side >>> will now be .5 mm closer to the frame, correct? I don't think it's worth >>> worrying about. >>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
