Well I did not get pilloried for yesterday's hack so here is one more that may be helpful to someone (tis for me). I was sorting some junk into the recycling pile including a FUBAR mtn bike wheel - a POS Dept Store bike. While spinning away on the trainer recently, listening to Baltimore box player Billy McComiskey, I realized that the hub on that wheel could be useful for servicing freewheels. So I pulled that wheel out and cut all the spokes and salvaged the hub. I pulled the axle, nuts and cones cuz those are useful for supporting bare frames during transit and removed the FW. I glued up a block of pine and sized it to fit the empty hub but small enough to clamp in my vice. Before I glued it all together I drilled a hole (1 inch in this case) thru the center to hold the hub. After the glue dried I wacked a few nails thru the spoke holes to ensure the hub would not spin and now I have a ISO threaded steel hub that I can put freewheels on - much more compact than keeping a spare wheel around and much better than using a good wheel's aluminum threads for FW service.

I used it today to take a FW apart: unscrewing the cogs, tapping out the lock ring and holding it while I put it all back together. FW service is really simple, just tedious. I also found it easier to carefully screw the FW on this small hub than screwing it on a fully assembled wheel.