RE: [CR]Removing Freewheels from Spokeless Hubs ??

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "Peter Brueggeman" <pbrueggeman@ucsd.edu>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Removing Freewheels from Spokeless Hubs ??
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:58:37 -0800
reply-type=original

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.

Get some long spokes, cut off their heads, bend hooks into the cutoff ends, bend them to fit into the hub flange behind the freewheel, and then laceto a rim, then remove the freewheel.

Peter

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Peter Brueggeman
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