Originally Posted by
Roland Owens
I knew I was in trouble when I finally got the lock ring off after a bit of a struggle and saw all the red loctite that was used. Then I went to try and get the cog off. No go. I destroyed my chain whip and then tried to do the vice trick and it would not budge.
Roland
I brought mine to LBS and they couldn't remove the cog too (damn thread lock!

) so I stuck with it and changed the chainring which was triple expensive.