[CR]Recommended tool for tightening track hub lockrings?

(Example: Racing)

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:33:17 -0400
From: "HM & SS Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
To: prutledge1@comcast.net, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Recommended tool for tightening track hub lockrings?


Well, Pete, we start with congrats on getting the Frejus on the road. I've got several "hook" tools that seem to work ok. I will, however, admit to occasionally using what a friend from Wisconsin once referred to as a "Swedish Micrometer." Judicious tapping on a very blunt, softened, screwdriver shank with a light hammer. I'll also admit to having one cheap fixed gear hub on which I overdid this "adjustment" and was reminded that aluminum hub threads give way before steel lock ring threads.. :-(

harvey "still learning the hard way" sachs mcLean va

As I deal with the final details in the restoration of my '63 Frejus track bike, can anyone suggest the best tool for tightening the rear hub lockring? Would the Park HCW-5 bottom bracket lockring tool be a good choice? It looks like the end of this tool that has the single tooth would do the job. Back in the sixties, I used a hammer and a center punch, but lockrings were not quite so dear then.

Thanks,

Pete Rutledge
Woodbridge, VA