Re: [CR]Campagnolo hub

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

From: <olyoop@attbi.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo hub
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:58:55 +0000

I have a variation on the "cutting off the rim before removing the freewheel" story. I was once removing a freewheel from a very early Phil hub, which, you may recall, featured gruesome-looking high flanges unrelieved by slots or holes. I could feel the threads releasing their grip and was then baffled to find that I was holding a bunch of slack spokes. The light gradually went on: the smell of glue in the room was all that remained of the interface between the driveside flange and hub body. The freewheel hadn't budged, but that was by then the least of my concerns.

I was generally just as poor a mechanic as this vignette would suggest. Happily, I never turned wrenches for a living; I couldn't have paid for all the stuff I would surely have snapped, stripped, or rounded-off.

Kris Green Olympia WA Cold, wet, *and* windy, which somehow seems unfair. Any two, I can handle.