I suspect that when your PW hub arrived back at their factory they just removed the axle cap and used a standard BMX
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 6:53:08 PM UTC-6, Peter Adler wrote: > > Nope. None of the readily-available BMX freewheel removers fit over the > Phil axle - and I've bought and failed with several of them. > > I bought an MA2 wheel with a Phil hub off eBay several years back, and got > it cheap because the seller had foolishly threaded a White Industries > <http://www.whiteind.com/> ENO onto the hub without checking whether he > could get it back off again. Obviously, I didn't want to trash the nice > pricy freewheel. After going through four different removers and taking it > to two different BMX-specialist shops, I broke down and emailed Phil Wood. > They told me to ship it/haul it down to their shop in San Jose CA, where > they've either machined some tool to remove it, or they've come up with > some other trick. This is still on my shortlist; the trip to San Jose goes > through three of America's ten biggest commuter chokepoints, and I don't > get down to the South Bay very often. > > If there is a tool, it wouldn't hurt to ask if they'll sell you one. It > could make you the emergency rescue mechanic for anyone else in your area > who gets into this jam. > > Peter "still hoarding onto the PW alloy Dixie cup to maintain hub bearing > preload" Adler > Berkeley, CA/USA > > On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:32:08 PM UTC-8, 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
