Freewheel removal if hub not laced to rim

waynebergman

100 kW
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Up to my usual tricks today. I pulled apart an rim and spokes today to use for a new Mac motor. As luck would have it I forgot to pull the freewheel before I removed the old Mac motor from its wheel set. So with no rim and or tire to hang onto to leverage my freewheel tool against I felt a bit snookered and stupid. The work around for today's blunder was to put some mild clamping pressure on the motor shell with my trusty black and decker workmate and then use gorilla duct tape to anchor the hub from from spinning by wrapping a few layers around the hub shell and then back to the workmate. A quick blow with a hammer to the wrench on the free wheel tool did the trick. I am sure there are more elegant solutions to this but if it helps anyone it did work.......Wayne
 
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