Old Bicycle wrenches
10-21-21 | 12:22 PM
#26
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Bikes: Cheltenham-Pedersen racer, Boulder F/S Paris-Roubaix, Varsity racer, '52 Christophe, '62 Continental, '92 Merckx, '75 Limongi, '76 Presto, '72 Gitane SC, '71 Schwinn SS, etc.
Home-made freewheel or freehub tools are simple to make out of a socket, using a saw and a file. But a tool with more than two lugs is much more difficult to make, because more than two lugs need to be indexed much more evenly than on a two-lug tool.
A regular non-impact socket may not be strong enough for removing freewheels, but can easily remove a freehub's "locking cup cone". The one below took ten or fifteen minutes to make as I recall.
I've nearly eliminated non-Shimano, non-Suntour freewheels from my bike fleet's drivetrains, even using Uniglide freewheels forced onto French threads as on my Bianchi's non-original, French-threaded Tipo hubset. It's quite hilly here and I haven't had a problem with it despite spirited riding on grades steeper than 20%.
A regular non-impact socket may not be strong enough for removing freewheels, but can easily remove a freehub's "locking cup cone". The one below took ten or fifteen minutes to make as I recall.
I've nearly eliminated non-Shimano, non-Suntour freewheels from my bike fleet's drivetrains, even using Uniglide freewheels forced onto French threads as on my Bianchi's non-original, French-threaded Tipo hubset. It's quite hilly here and I haven't had a problem with it despite spirited riding on grades steeper than 20%.
Last edited by dddd; 10-21-21 at 12:27 PM.
03-13-22 | 12:04 PM
#28
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From: SF Bay Area, East bay
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