Re: [CR]Real Regina freewheel remover

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:12:28 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Real Regina freewheel remover
References: <200601290425.k0T4PPKl026066@ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200601290425.k0T4PPKl026066@ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com>


Robert D. Dayton,Jr. wrote:
> Park makes a FR-4 which is supposed to work with Regina.
> But when I've tried to use it the walls are a bit too thick to remove the
> freewheel w/o removing the the cone.
> Luckily I a very thin walled aluminum one that works.

The FR-4 works with the later, splined Regina bodies. The older Regina bodies used a two-prong remover that was prone to stripping out with careless use. Sometime around the mid-70's Regina switched to a splined body using the same pattern Zeus and Atom had been using. This is a much nicer design than the older body. Phil Wood and Zeus both made thin-wall tools that worked well with all these freewheels (Zeus, Atom, and Regina).

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA