Thomas -- look on the back of the freewheel body and see if you can find a faint marking that will say "M2" or "M3". If it's M2, take it back to your LB and ask them to warranty it with an M3 model. A few of these older models are still lurking -- we found a couple in our stocks this month -- and they are prone to pawl failure. Good luck -- beth
On Dec 25, 6:47 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hey, all! Merry Christmas! > > I installed a new IRD 7-speed, 13-32 freewheel today. It began slipping > shortly thereafter. Turns out, the small ring, which serves as a thread-on > "cap" of sorts for the cogset (a lockring?), was cracked like a split bearing > race. Under any pressure, the crack would separate, allowing the cap to hop > over a thread, letting the cogs move outboard, letting a couple of them free > from their splines. They would spin. The others of course were out of > position and laterally mobile so shifting among them them was iffy at best. > > Anyway, I was able to remove the newly-installed freewheel and put on another > new one (don't know that it matters, but the latter one's an IRD 7-speed > 13-28). It does not have the problem. > > Just a datapoint. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
