Re: [CR]Detecting French Freewheel threads in the field

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 07:28:40 -0700
From: "Steven Willis" <smwillis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Detecting French Freewheel threads in the field
To: "Thomas Adams" <thomasthomasa@yahoo.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Also remember we measured it out at 34.7 and that should be French but the French will not go on. I also put a tread gauge on it and it too says French. So, did the Zeus co. use some offbeat tread angle? Steven Steven Willis 1778 East Second Street Scotch Plains NJ 07076 908-322-3330 http://www.thebikestand.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Adams
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:01 AM
Subject: [CR]Detecting French Freewheel threads in the field



> Just bought a lovely pair of Zeus hubs on eBay, and the seller says
> they're BSC. The hubs are unmarked, and the box is marked Metric. Seller
> did check the hubs, an english freehwheel screws on and a french goes on
> two turns then binds.
>
> My testing is identical, english screws on, french goes about three wrist
> twists (1.5 turns) and then binds. However the english freewheel seems to
> rock ever so slightly on the hub, and I always thought that a french
> freewheel wouldn't even start on an english hub. Also, the french
> freewheel I used for the test is an old, rusty dirty unit, so it's
> possible the threads are contaminated with dirt or otherwise damaged,
> hence the binding. On the other hand, the rocking with the english
> freewheel could be just bearing play (I didn't tighten it all the way
> down, as I don't have a rim laced to the hub and don't want to get the
> freewheel stuck).
>
> I'd appreciate some enlightenment on whether this hub is english or
> french, or whether there's some other test I need to perform. The primary
> question is whether a French freewheel will thread about two turns on a
> BSC hub, then bind as opposed to my old belief that a french freewheel
> would not even start to screw onto a BSC hub. I don't want to risk
> ruining the hub with a BSC freewheel, so I'm looking for the warm fuzzy
> that this is not a french threaded hub.
>
> Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
>
>
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