Mark is right on.
Lucky that it's high flange and not low flange
Get a bare body use the old cogs and you're back in business.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:01 PM Subject: RE: [CR]Removing Freewheels from Spokeless Hubs ??? And cheap VARRegina tool
>
> Amir Avitzur wrote:
>
>> I got a Record Hi-Flange hub off ebay for cheap.
>> The catch was that a Regina freewheel was attached.
>> The last two cogs screw off the back of this freewheel.
>>
>> Previous posts have mentioned lacing the other side and using the
>> rim for leverage.
>> This has been known to damage the hub (photos in Barnet's manual).
>>
>> Does anybody have a foolproof method of removing the freewheel.
>> I want to save the hub and freewheel cogs ... the freewheel body
>> can be expended.
>
> Sure, just knock off the retaining ring with the two pin-wrench holes.
> You don't need a pin wrench that fits, you can use a hammer and punch.
> The thread is left-hand so it unscrews "backwards".
>
> Once that's off, the outer part of the FW body will just fall off -
> bearings & pawls & springs all over the floor - but who cares, right?
>
> Then you can build the wheel completely, then remove the inner part of
> the body by normal means.
>
> By the way, if you need to get the last cog off the FW body, you'll want
> to buy the special VAR tool that clamps the body in a vise for removing
> the cog. You can find it for sale here, for just $3 plus shipping:
>
> http://biketoolsetc.com/
> sc=Ca
> ssettes-and-Freewheels&tc=Freewheel-Body-Vise&item_id=VR-368
>
> or http://tinyurl.com/
>
> Yes, no typo, I said three dollars. It really should be thirty at
> least! I just bought one even though I had one already! I might lose
> one.
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle WA USA