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Title: Freewheel help?
Post by: ORB on December 04, 2005, 05:11 PM

OK,

I have spent the day by fixing up a load of shagged tuffs. I have a few with freewheels that i just cannot free.

I have tried the chisell and mallet method, the soak and then batter method, i dont have access to a decent vice at the moment nor a free wheel key.

Any other tricks i am missing?

I have even smashed the gears off one Shimano one and have tried to get the rest off with a big pipe wrench and its not having any.

Cheers

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: theRuler on December 04, 2005, 05:18 PM

if its a real sticker and you have no vice, you will need the freewheel tool
put a tyre on the wheel (with a tube!) for extra grip. then swing from yonder wrench.
also if its real tight, a vice would probably chew it up

or hold the wheel while someone hammers the freewheel with a "suitable drift"

when i nod my head, hit it

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: ORB on December 04, 2005, 05:19 PM

lol...

Tried all that (apart from the vice and FW key bit) some of these are propper old.

I have never used a FW tool yet and i dont intend to start now.

:(

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: theRuler on December 04, 2005, 05:22 PM

get one off ebay
i succumbed the other week and bought one (after 23 years of bike maintenance)

i feel a bit stupid having wasted all that time clamping wheels in a vice and beating the freewheels with a hammer and chisel.  :-[

the freewheel key really does make light work of it.

shouldnt whack you more than a deep sea off the bay

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: ORB on December 04, 2005, 05:25 PM

but i want to do them NOW!!!

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: lazychubs on December 04, 2005, 05:25 PM

hope you havent ruined that spare tuff orb lol
and i use the hammer and punch method too
always works for me

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: gjs on December 04, 2005, 07:12 PM

A pneumatic chisel always works,always,every time without a dout :)

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on December 05, 2005, 08:47 AM

not had ONE that has not succumbed to the vice yet. and ive had some right shitters. get a vice orb. you can add it to your collection. alcohol...bmx...them stupid bears...my little pony...

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: Waxintaxin on December 05, 2005, 01:51 PM

get some muscles  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: theRuler on December 05, 2005, 02:00 PM

Quote from: Waxintaxin on December 05, 2005, 01:51 PM

get some muscles  :LolLolLolLol:

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now what?

Title: Re: Freewheel help?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on December 05, 2005, 02:01 PM

set them upon the freewheel obviously......