Originally Posted by
FBinNY
This is a good way to destroy a Regina or Everest freewheel. Removing these requires a solid purchase that absolutely shift, lift, or cam. It is necessary that you use the right remover, and clamp it down with the QR.
Interestingly, Regina removers were the second tool I produced BITD, after cone wrenches. you won't find any to buy these days, but any mechanic who was working before the 90s will still have one tucked away.
Due to your vast experience (really, not sarcasm, I've grokked that from your posts), I believe you. Dang I miss when I had access at employers to a full machine shop; Start with a suitable hardenable steel with good toughness (I bought a whole set of security bits at harbor freight, all brittle as glass), a little lathe time, a little mill time, heat treat, and I could make one of those. A hyperglide tool would be more complex, requiring a rotary table or super-spacer (indexed rotary table) to do the splines.
Spoke wrench, had just bought a new Cannondale and my old wrench didn't fit, Sunday, bike shop closed, had 24/7 access to machine shop at my college, whipped one out. 35 years later, still works great:
