Re: [CR] Tool identification and its use

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:04:43 +0100
From: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl>
Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <779093151002210626t15b53725r805980332b8ba70f@mail.gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Tool identification and its use


Tom Hayes wrote:
> 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.
>

nearly there: by tightenng the two bolts you jam the freewheel, and then you can spin it of with the long lever

-- mvg

Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands