Curiosity got the best of me so I went down to the shop to take some actual measurements. The opening on the FR-6 is 15.29mm; the PW axle cap diameter is 18.87mm. So milling out the tool to about 19mm may not involve removing as critical an amount of material as I feared. I think I might go after this solution. BTW, from what little I know about machinist work, I'm thinking this would probably get done with a vertical milling machine, not a lathe.
Thanks all for your suggestions. On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 8:07:05 PM UTC-6, George Schick wrote: > > Will - your advice is exactly how i do it. Then, since the axle cap can't > be reinstalled with the BMX tool in there, I shore it up with a couple of > fender washers to support it on the DS. I have also thought about your > suggestion to bore out the hole on the FR-6 tool to fit over the axle cap > (I have a machinist friend with the lathe), but I fear that it may leave > the remaining metal too thin to withstand the torque involved in removing > the freewheel. Might be worth a shot sometime, though. They're not that > expensive a tool… > > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:57:18 PM UTC-6, William deRosset wrote: >> >> Dear George, >> >> Can you pull the DS and leave the NDS (my non-track end-cap-swappable >> Phil hubs are in VT these days, or I'd check) in place to locate the QR? >> All the QR needs is to provide some preload to hold the splines >> prongs/splines in place until the freewheel shifts a bit. Alternatively, >> you could throw your freewheel remover on the lathe and bore it out a >> bit.... >> >> Best, >> >> Will >> William M. deRosset >> Fort Collins, CO >> >> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 5:32:08 PM UTC-7, George Schick wrote: >>> >>> Anyone out there know of a "BMX" freewheel removal tool that will work >>> well with a Phil Hub? Unfortunately, the center hole on a commonly used >>> tool, like the Park FR-6, is not large enough to slip over the >>> larger-than-normal axle caps of the Phil hub. This means that the axle cap >>> on the drive side must first be removed, which is not only an extra PITA, >>> but then the removal tool has to sit against the notches on the freewheel >>> without benefit of the QR skewer to hold it in place, risking the stripping >>> of the FW notches in the process. >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
