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Brandy Truffle:
What an arse... gave a mate of mine who owns an Engineering company my set of Arayas from BITD to strip ano and polish,Rims great cond still,Bullseye Hubs virtually mint once i'd cleaned crap off them...

I didnt have time to strip them,but in conversation he said,no worries,he'd get one of the lads who was doing the polishing to do it,asked if i wanted to keep spokes,i said no gonna rebuild...

You can guess whats happened...... Geezer has snipped spokes off at the hubs and now i cant get the sprocket off....which means no re-use

Looked for a bit of advice on wheelbuilding and saw ALANS build page here..

http://www.alansbmx.com/wheelbuild.php


--- Quote ---....If the wheels requires stripping (ie/the spokes taking out) there is a 5.00 change for this. IMPORTANT if you are stripping your own wheel YOU MUST REMOVE THE FREEWHEEL (if freewheel type) FIRST! If you do not do this we cannot get the freewheel off and we are all stuffed.

--- End quote ---

Any advice guys?  :-\

harris:
cant you just do a quick relace even if its just one side with tention you should still be able to budge it.

Brandy Truffle:
Of all the things i thought of..... i didnt think of that! I wouldnt mind if it was an old set of Suzues or something,but i did paper rounds for 6 months to pay for those wheels  :idiot2: So,i dont really wanna lose the hubs.

Cheers Harris. A few quid spent on some spokes will be worth it hopefully!  :daumenhoch:


Just hope the kid hasn't put it in a vice yet!  :uglystupid2:

sawzall:
i have done a couple of these,i ended up using a disc cutter carefully cutting through sprocket from three different angles being careful not to damage threads,good luck ;)

crazycraig:
Vice squash the freewheel tight and then turn .....works a treat as ive done the same mi sel  :-\

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