Dud BB

bice
bice Posts: 772
edited March 2009 in Workshop
I have just bought an old Italian steel frame, a Lazzaretti c1995, and the seller has put in a second hand Chorus BB. It's a sealed unit, but it turns quite grittily with the fingers as though it is dried out. How smoothly should these turn? I got it as an extra thorwn in for the price, from Rome, so it could be a knackered one hanging around.