Re: [CR]freeing a stuck freewheel

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Columbus:SLX)

Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:39:14 -0700
From: <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
To: Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]freeing a stuck freewheel
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I agree with Charles and one other...

Patience...

I know a big beefy guy who once tried to do the job - and knew right off the back it wasn't going to give - even under his torque capabilites.... Poured globs of the lightest weight oil into the freewheel/shell mating and let it sit

all day and all night right there on the vise....

Good tug the next day - off it came...

Occasional tug as Charles suggest helps work it in a little while it sits...

Someone once told me that you can use a dremel to turn a 2 prong into a 4 pronger...clean up the original two with the dremel as well...never tried it myself though.

They might be wrong for all I know because it assumes the same diameter of the prong ring...

=8-)

Robert Shackelford San Jose, CA USA

Quoting Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@comcast.net>:
> Freeing a stuck freewheel
>
> Use lot of WD 40 or something like that on freewheel threads.
> Wait a day or two
> Hold freewheel tool in a vise
> than try turning wheel just a little bit
> Than wait using more WD-40
> Use repeat turning wheel
> What your doing is creating new places for WD-40 to penetrate.
> It took me 5 days to get one loose
> Charles Nighbor
> Walnut Creek, CA USA
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