The last few years, I variously acquired a bunch of NOS Regina bodies w/o cogs. Some two-notch, some splined. Seemed a bunch easier to take apart a FW with good cogs but bunged body, and just install a new inner body from one of the ones I'd acquired. Alas, I'm down to the last two new bodies now. Last time I tried using chain whip to pull an inner (Left hand thread) from a Regina, I wound up with a nicely warped cog... Not my favorite job, eh? But, when I run out of new bodies, I'll have to do it your way.
harvey sachs mcLean va.
Jerry Moos wrote <snip>: I did have a 14-30 Regina outer body with cogs, salvaged from an FW where the inner body remover notches had been damaged beyond use. So I decided it was finally time to tackle removing the cogs from this outer body.
On the old Regina/Atoms, removing the outer three cogs, while not fun, is usually doable, if not with two chain whips, then with a bench vice and a FW vice like this Bicycle Research, clamped in a bench vice:
But the inner two cogs on both Regina and Atom, in my experience, are an absolute pain in the a** to remove, even with the above FW vice. However, I had a completely different FW vice, a VAR 368. I bought a couple of these when an online seller was clearing them out a couple of years ago. If you can get the outer three cogs off a Regina/Atom FW, the VAR will hold the FW body in a bench vice while you remove the two inner cogs from the BACK of the FW. Time to try the VAR out. Using this tool, I was able to remove the two inner cogs from the Regina body with with only a modest amount of pain, whereas my previous experience with such inner cogs had for years led me to avoid this task like the plague.
Built up the loose Atom 66 body with a combination of Atom and Regina cogs to give me the desired 16-30 4 speed, omitting the outside cog.
Thought it might be of interest to the group to confirm that these old Regina and Atom cogs are indeed interchangeable, and that it is actually possible to remove and replace all the cogs if one has the VAR FW vice.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA