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Old 12-31-17 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Vintage_Cyclist
Ask and ye shall receive.

I'll obviously cop to having gotten one of these about 35 years ago, just in case it was needed on a tour. Never, ever used it. It was specifically targeted to the Suntour freewheel tools, but it also fit some of the smaller Bicycle Research freewheel tools as well.
Thanks for the images. I hadn't realized that the skewer threaded into the body of the tool--it would obviously have been very shaky otherwise, especially with non-splined freewheel removers.

You'd obviously want to check to make sure that the threading on your skewer matched the threading on the tool before expecting it to work on a tour.

For all the confident directions on the package, I'm a little skeptical about easily threading off a freewheel using a screwdriver as a lever. I've often struggled with stubborn freewheels when using a 12-inch adjustable wrench extended with a four-foot piece of 1 1 1/2"steel pipe (back before I had a bench vise).
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