Amir, you're going about it right except for the pin wrench - use a hammer and punch. I actually use the corner of a "cold chisel" - a chisel meant for steel with a fairly obtuse cutting edge compared to a wood chisel. After a couple of whacks the chisel will have an indent at that corner that makes it more perfect as a lockring remover but less perfect as a chisel - but removing freewheel lockrings is the only thing I use it for.
Yes the ring is left-hand thread. Sometimes they even have an arrow in the direction it unscrews - I think that is on Regina GS Corse and Everest freewheels, not Regina Oro. But they are all left-hand thread.
Mark Bulgier Seattle WA USA
Amir Avitzur wrote:
> In an effort to remove an old freewheel from a rimless hub:
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> 1. removed the Regina Extra's three outer cogs
> 2. built a jig to hold the hub by the flange holes
> 3. Gripped the jig in a vice
> 4. tried to remove the retainer with a VAR pin tool
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> I immediately cracked both pins.
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> Is the retainer left-hand threaded.
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> If so, what's the next step?
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> Amir Avitzur
> Ramat-Gan, Israel