Originally Posted by
poprad
I have gone a different route...I remove the outer 2 cogs, thus making the prong holes actually raised from the surface of the 3rd cog...then put a ratchet handle across the hole, which fills the prong holes perfectly and lets me really crank the hell out of it.
The G.S. Corse and Oro bodies were originally designed for a four-cog block; the other positions were added later without redesigning the body itself. Campagnolo's #704 tool was thus designed to remove a four-cog freewheel in the manner you describe. As more cogs were added, the #704 tool would no longer reach the slots in the freewheel body and therefor the #704/1 "reducing insert" was cobbled on to restore functionality to the #704 tool. The common 2-prong tools from Shimano, Bicycle Research, and others are copies of the "reducing insert" not the original tool.
