Originally Posted by
cwedgwood50
Also, I'm going to look round for a nice professionally built set of wheels for the other bike and then try to start with a bit of spoke tightening if they start to go out of true.
Properly built wheels will stay true almost indefinitely provided they aren't abused, so you won't get much wheel-truing practice...
Originally Posted by
cwedgwood50
So, How(approx) many spokes need to be laced up for the tool to remove the freewheel to work?
A reasonable number of the drive-side ones. If it were me I'd lace as many as possible, i.e. as many as are still in the hub and not broken.
Don't just lace the non-drive side and try to remove the freewheel, or you run the risk of twisting the hub shell in half. In all honesty, I might not even lace the non-drive side at all.