[CR] Tool identification and its use

(Example: Framebuilding)

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:26:54 -0500
From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@gmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Tool identification and its use


I picked up a tool, not knowing its use or whether it is complete it or not. It has engraved on it "Chicyco Free Wheel Remover." Apparently it was made by a company called, Chicago Cycle Supply Company, that appears to have gone out of business quite sometime ago, perhaps the 1930's or 1940's. I wonder if any members know whether the tool is indeed for bicycles, and if so, how would one use it, and perhaps whether it is complete or not. The center hole does not have threads. The only way I can figure that tool works (though on spatial and imagining tools' functions, I am grossly impaired) is that wheel axle fits into the hole (about the right size), the swivel "U" clamps grab perhaps the teeth, and by tightening the small bolts against whatever one has in the "U" clamps, you would force it off. But that certainly does not account for the threads on free wheel.

Pictures can seen at the following:

http://picasaweb.google.com/hayesbikes/ToolIdentification

Thanks for the help.

Tom Hayes
Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA