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Old 05-04-08 | 05:46 PM
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Stick the whole thing inside of a freezer before you try to take the cog off. Since the hub is aluminum and the thermal coefficient of expansion of aluminum is larger than steel(the cog), cooling it down will shrink the hub more than the cog allowing you to reverse rotafix the cog off.

Heating can also work if you can keep the majority of the heat on the cog and not transfer it to the hub
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