Cant open lockring

[bennydorano]

I'm knackered by this stage, have lubed up everything, turning the correct direction, decent chainwhip, had the skewer through to tighten it up - textbook, but can't shift the bastid. Any tips please. Only other thing I can think of is a longer wrench for more leverage?

Would the whole thing jamming be common? They are Rodi Airline wheels that I've had for about a year, done big enough mileage in all sorts of weather

 

[oldgreyandslow]

What are you using to loosen the lock ring? The tool I have has a half inch square drive so I can use a socket wrench or breaker bar, the latter should work

 

[Tim Hall]

I tend to put the chain whip and spanner at "ten to two", with the wheel upright. Working from above it, press down on the ends of both tools, IYSWIM.

 

[jay clock]

put the tool in a vice and turn the wheel. Or put an adjustable wrench in a vice/workmate and slot the tool in that

 

[Sharky]

Very hard to suggest anything without seeing or trying, but last time I did one, I used a long adjustable wrench, about 10" and instead of a chain whip, I put a screwdriver into the holes of the largest sprockets from the inside of the hub and just held it against the hub to stop the cassette from "free wheeling". Then with the skewers in to hold the lock ring tool in place loosly, just turned it anti-clockwise and it came undone.
But this sounds pretty much like what you are doing anyway, so I am stumped.

Good luck.
Keith

 

[mr messy]

If don't have socket and breaker bar use scaffy pole or similar over wrenchs. Old Archimedes new a thing or two about loosening stuff

 

[slowmotion]

^^^^^^^ Yes.
You need some torque. Just make sure that you are applying it in the correct direction. (BTW, I am sure that you are)

 

[John the Canuck]

put the tool in a vice and turn the wheel. ............

i read a lot / watched a lot before i did mine
seem to recall i read ''dont turn the wheel..?

 

[John the Canuck]

I tend to put the chain whip and spanner at "ten to two", with the wheel upright. Working from above it, press down on the ends of both tools, IYSWIM.

correct - but it didn't work until i 'bounced' up and down

sounds daft but i think a steady pressure wasn't enough to 'crack' the serrated teeth on the inside face of the lockring

good luck

 

[I like Skol]

Tool in the vice is good advice, this way you only have to pull at the chainwhip. A word of caution, watch your knuckles/skin as hitting a cassette can be painful!

 

[Hotchilidamo]

Juvenile of me but if you have a dirty mind and read this thread replacing one letter in the thread title it's very amusing

 

[screenman]

Air gun like the use in workshops, works well for me. I never had a problem in all my years of doing them until the last one I did, bent chain whips 2 in fact, long levers you name it, until a bright spark suggested air gun. The bright spark was Barron Cycles, brilliant shop if you are any where near Lincoln. Proper cycling family owned.

 

[Christopher]

How do you use an air gun to loosen a lockring, screeman?

 

[compo]

How do you use an air gun to loosen a lockring, screeman?

Use a lockring tool that you can use a 1/2" drive tool on. Most air guns are 1/2 drive.

 

[MontyVeda]

I'm knackered by this stage, have lubed up everything, turning the correct direction, decent chainwhip, had the skewer through to tighten it up - textbook, but can't shift the bastid. Any tips please. Only other thing I can think of is a longer wrench for more leverage?

Would the whole thing jamming be common? They are Rodi Airline wheels that I've had for about a year, done big enough mileage in all sorts of weather

had that before, i just walked down to my LBS and asked them to do it, several seconds later and no charge, it was off