Originally Posted by
nlerner
Has this become a show-us-your-freewheel-removers thread?
Originally Posted by
bulgie
ooh, can I play?
A few unusual ones in there:
- front-center, there are two Cyclo-Pans 4-prongers
- Front-right, who made that goofy thing with the skewer nut bult in? It spins but it's held captive. What a waste of steel, I mean you have the actual skewer nut in your hand from taking it off, so when would you want this? It's just a curio, I've probably never used it.
- Next to the chrome Dura-Ace TL-FW10 is the yellow Bicycle Research CT-1 that does the same thing. I like redundancy.
- in front of the CT-1 is a TDC 3-prong, anyone ever work on TDC FWs? At my old job (early '70s) we decided it stood for Totally Degenerate Crap. Not fair, but moderately funny.
- Behind the CT-1 is a Maillard. Funny thing about that one, in addition to the large external spline you see, they also had a smaller internal spline at the other end, which fits an Atom remover up inside it. The only logic for that I can imagine is if you had an Atom remover welded to a large tommy bar, you could use that to drive the big Maillard remover. Or maybe it's to prevent the Maillard "can" from being crushed in the vise?
- To the left of the Maillard is the can that Phil used to ship with their hubs, to prevent you from accidentally extracting the axle/bearings subassembly.
- Upper left is a freehub tool, how'd that sneak in there? Someone wasn't paying attention.
Looks like I'm going to need to step up my game and buy a few more freewheel tools to be a full member of the cool kids club . .