Originally Posted by
cny-bikeman
It's not that hard, folks. As shown, jam a small screwdriver in a notch and lever it over. On Sturmeys if you have the hub totally disassembled it's easy to get the lockring back on with a cone wrench placed flat on the lockring and then pushed onto the driver at an angle.
There's a culture here on BF which seems to believe that every job requires special tools. Old timers who have a few decent general purpose tools in their tool box, along with a few improvised handy items, think differently. Of course there are some jobs which can
ONLY be done with a special tool, such as removing a freewheel, but many if not most others can be done just as well with normal stuff at hand. Of course there are tools that make it faster or easier, and which would pay for themselves in time saved for pros, but probably don't make as much sense for home mechanics.