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IDEAS NEEDED - How to take a freewheel off from a hub?

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Dark Diggler:
Lacing it to a rim using the other side only is your best bet

brass monkey!:
what Dan Diesel said  :)

SaMAlex:

--- Quote from: monkian on December 06, 2011, 03:51 PM ---I think someone on here cut one off with a dremel ???


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Bust off the outer ring of the freewheel (cut, unscrew, snap) and you'll be left with just the inner bit still screwed onto the hub. Then, hopefully there'll be enough space to get spokes in to lace up the wheel. Once built, you can hold the inner ring bit in a vice and unscrew it using the rim.

I'd say that the ONLY way to get a freewheel off is to hold it in a vice (using a tool, or just holding the inner bit) and use a rim as leverage. And even they, they are always very tight.

rooski:

--- Quote from: diesel on December 06, 2011, 03:46 PM ---Ideas needed please

Got a very nice Rare 'low flange' hub here:

It has a Shimano freewheel on and I don't want to damage the hub 'at all'.

As its low flange - I cannot re-lace it with the freewheel on.

Any ideas welcome, before I go to work on it

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Is it a Profile gyrolite ???

Last hub i did i cut through it with an angle grinder,then when the outside was of,i cut through the inner until i got to the hub threads,then turned it with a stilson :daumenhoch:

I worked out how far to grind down though, kept measuring it with a vernier :daumenhoch:,was only a suzue hub though,not a profile one :D

Spen69:
Dan I've got them off before by lacing the other side up only. I laced all the spokes in one direction though and turned the sproket against all 18 of them. Obviously I had a removal tool in a vice and turned the wheel against the vice.

Mine were a set of Arai sealed hubs so I had to get the freewheel off!

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