Originally Posted by
Lenton58
WOW - it's been so long ... too long since since I built a bike "transmission".
I found a Dura Ace, two-prong tool that fitted my freewheel perfectly. I secured it with a sewer and chucked the tool in my huge Record vice. With the tubular pumped to 100 psi to protect the rim, I pulled anti-clockwise and the freewheel cracked off!
The tool is in the original box. If anyone wants the part number, let me know. I forget what it is, and it's locked away with the mosquitoes in the bike garage.
I'm still interested in any comments about what members are doing when they want freewheels in the age of ubiquitous freehubs / cassettes.
And I'm still hunting corncobs.
Cheers ... Lorne
Welcome to the new normal.
We're so far down the road of threadless, disposable, cartridge, throwaway, profit at all costs crap that we're lucky so much oldschool stuff is still available and thanks to bullitproof design and manufacturing it lives on, the same will not be true for most of the "better, modern" crap we have now, nevermind built in obsolescence so it won't matter if they last.
Plenty of FW's like you seek to be had, you may just have to dig a bit.
