jbeattie wrote:
:On Monday, July 28, 2014 3:57:51 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
: On Monday, July 28, 2014 4:23:52 PM UTC-4, wrote:
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: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:43:44 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
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: Some guys prefer to half build the wheel on a scrap rim
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: using the left flange but there's a real risk of twisting
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: the hubshell so I don't suggest that.
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: The OP doesn't care if the Campy hub is destroyed removing the
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: freewheel - It's just the SunTour Winner freewheel he wants to save.
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: Actually, I'd kind of like to keep the hub undamaged, too. I don't really
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: have a use for it, but I'm sort of a junk collector - if Campy hubs can be
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: considered junk.
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: I was pretty excited by the impact wrench idea, since one of my best
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: friends has a big compressor and impact set. But then I realized my
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: 2-prong SunTour freewheel removal tool has just two flats in a
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: cylindrical body, rather than a hex body.
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: I suppose I could grind it to a hex, but at this point, it seems it
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: might be easiest to just half-ass build it into one of the old rims I own.
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: Fortunately, I'm sort of a junk collector.

:Unless I'm conceptualizing this wrong, an impact hammer is not going to
revent flange damage. You're still going to have to place the hub in a
:vice or other fixture

Nope. The impact wrench works by having a ratating hammer inside the
tool strike an anvil connected to the output. They deliver sharp,
short, impacts of torque to the fastener (or freewheel...), and so
will spin it off without imparting much rotation to the thing the
fastener is attached to. They're routinely used for spinning nuts off
pulleys of things like alternators, without having ot worry about how
to lock the shaft in place.

:You could try Muzi's approach but instead of using vice grips, use a strap wrench around the hub body. Considering the rim rotted off (how does that even happen?), the freewheel is probably welded to the hub, and a strap wrench won't do the trick.

Wood rim?

:-- Jay Beattie.


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