Can anyone help with removing this cassette type please

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rogerzilla

Squire
Cheap ones often have no built-in means of removal. SOP is to dismantle in situ (the cone has a LH thread; use a hammer and punch in the two dimples). You often need to remove sprockets first, using two chain whips. Eventually you're left with just the body screwed to the hub (normal RH thread) which will have two flats where the pawls sit. Use a big vice on them and turn the wheel, or a large spanner and a mallet.
 

Sharky

Legendary Member
Location
Kent
Tredz have a rear wheel for £37, for rim brakes and screw on freewheel. So do a cost comparison, before buying tools or going to the LBS.
 

Seascaper

New Member
Hi how do I remove this cassette please

Hello, it looks like you need to give it a good soak with penetrating oil or diesel. While you are doing this, a few days of soaking should do, get yourself a special chainset removing tool which is a special socket that fits into the end sprocket once you have removed the axle nut. You then refit the axle nut keeping the special socket in place. You then need a large bench vice. Turn wheel horizontally upside down and tighten this socket into the jaws of the vice. Once you have done this, hold the tyre and rotate the wheel holding the tyre against the ratchet. This action should release the chainset cassette from the wheel. You can continue releasing this way or remove it from the vice and use a chain type cassette removing tool which has a long lever and short length of chain. The advantage of using the vice is it is much easier to get more leverage to free up the cassette. Soak the cassette in petrol for about a week giving it a shake everyday and you will remove the dirt and you should hear the ratcheting as good as new. Lubricate with quality oil and refit using copper grease on the hub thread to ease removal next time. A job well done !
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petres

New Member
Trying to make one bike out of two old ones that will be used ! Cassette on this wheel bearing have gone and is only back wheel I hy
 

Ajax Bay

Guru
Location
East Devon
OP has returned! Not clear exactly what the cunning plan is, though: "cassette on this wheel bearing have gone".
From the images I think this is not a freewheel, though that was my immediate reaction. Ming says:
notches on outside of nearest ring. Six notches
and I suggest that we can see serrations on the smallest sprocket, which backs up the idea that this is a notched lockring. I remain both unsure - assume the receiving wheel hub is compatible.
C spanner if not a specific tool.
For @Seascaper :welcome:
special chainset removing tool which is a special socket that fits into the end sprocket once you have removed the axle nut.
This is not a chainset = if this was a freewheel you need a freewheel removal tool ( @IanH has offered a link).
That tool does not "fit into the end sprocket" it fits into the freewheel block
The hexagonal nut we can see has serrations. It is not an 'axle nut', which has already been removed, it's a locknut (to lock the cone in place).
 
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Seascaper

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OP has returned! Not clear exactly what the cunning plan is, though: "cassette on this wheel bearing have gone".
From the images I think this is not a freewheel, though that was my immediate reaction. Ming says:

and I suggest that we can see serrations on the smallest sprocket, which backs up the idea that this is a notched lockring. I remain both unsure - assume the receiving wheel hub is compatible.
C spanner if not a specific tool.
For @Seascaper :welcome:

This is not a chainset = if this was a freewheel you need a freewheel removal tool ( @IanH has offered a link).
That tool does not "fit into the end sprocket" it fits into the freewheel block
The hexagonal nut we can see has serrations. It is not an 'axle nut', which has already been removed, it's a locknut (to lock the cone in place).

Hello,
Yes correct it is an auto spelling for terms used and it did this not me, well done for noticing and pointing out,
Regards
 
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