Originally Posted by
due ruote
Here's an update on where my wasted time has landed me - at least one foot in the Regina-haters camp.
Lacking a fw vise, I tried Sheldon's tip of wrapping a cog in an old chain and clamping that in my bench vise. Broke the chain.
Went back to using 2 chain whips. Broke one of them.
So I now have one fw with 4 cogs removed, one fw with two cogs removed, and a broken chain whip. At least I didn't herniate a disk.
Anyone know what I should use to re-attach the chain to my chain whip? I'm guessing something stronger than a standard chain rivet.
Which chainwhip broke, the one trying to unscrew the cog or the one trying to prevent the freewheel from moving? Where did it break?
The most difficult cog to unscrew will be the largest because the applied torque to its threads gets divided by the gear ratio. It does not bode well, if it broke on the 3rd smallest.
I second the motion to use a pipe to extend the chainwhip's length. I used hose clamps to attach the pipe to the chain whip because the pipe's I.D. was too small to go over it.