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

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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:29:38 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
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Subject: Re: [CR]Detecting French Freewheel threads in the field
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Thomas Adams wrote:
> 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.

Try threading an English thread BB locking onto the hub. That may allow you o better judge the fit of the threads.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA