Originally Posted by
FBinNY
To the OP.
Since you were able to post a photo of the cassette, why not post the photo that would most help us solve your problem?
That would be one of the chain whip assembled onto the cassette as you're doing. We don't need to see the lockring tool since that doesn't seem to be the issue.
Hi FBinNY,
I will arrange for a photo tomorrow. In the interim, I purchased a couple small clamps at home depot to pin down the chain as suggested above. This helped but ultimately my clamps flew off the chain after I really cinched down the pressure. I will try to position them better tomorrow. I have also put some liquid wrench penetrating oil into the lockring. The video linked by
1nterceptor above showed a man using a giant plumbers pipefitting wrench. I will look into borrowing one. Thanks everyone for the recommendations.