GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Sometimes, despite having done the Cytec technical course(s) and having (most of) the tools, the lack of a full workshop and the limited exposure that only maintaining one's own fleet brings, means it pays to chuck something over the counter at the lbs.
They know exactly which magic potion to apply overnight (Wurth Rost Off Ice), which club hammer (XL) to apply, with which amount of force (lots), onto which part of the component (the axle) to get a recalcitrant freehub off. I stood by in awe and with three well-aimed blows off it popped.
£10 for their labour being so much less than £200 for a new rear wheel.
Sorted.
(alloy Shimano pattern freehubs, non-spider cassettes, and a 100kg rider, are not a match made in heaven, hence the need to get it off to replace it with a steel freehub.)
They know exactly which magic potion to apply overnight (Wurth Rost Off Ice), which club hammer (XL) to apply, with which amount of force (lots), onto which part of the component (the axle) to get a recalcitrant freehub off. I stood by in awe and with three well-aimed blows off it popped.
£10 for their labour being so much less than £200 for a new rear wheel.
Sorted.
(alloy Shimano pattern freehubs, non-spider cassettes, and a 100kg rider, are not a match made in heaven, hence the need to get it off to replace it with a steel freehub.)