On Jun 8, 12:49 pm, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:38 -0700, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote: > > Is it reasonable to think that a *well-built* freewheel > > mechanism would outlast at least some of the cogs? Those bearings > > don't really "bear" a lot. And who knows... even the spacers may be > > useful. > > Certainly. Back in the Good Old Days, there used to be the Cog Board, > with individual sprockets. Only the middle ones ever wore out, so > instead of replacing an entire freewheel you replaced the worn out > sprockets, re-using the freewheel body and the largest and smallest > sprockets. It worked then, why wouldn't it work now? Only reason I can > think of is the lack of availability of replacement sprockets.
Oh sweet irony! "replacement sprockets" (in the form of lightly-used failed freewheels) are exactly what I have! Of course, according to the IRD web-site, I'm on my own if I ever try to disassemble/re-assemble one of their freewheels. The web-site provides no help and makes it clear that it violates the warranty. Though I wish I had help, the warranty thing doesn't bother me. Warranty-shmarranty. But it *does* bother me thinking that the *reason* I'll be "on my own" may be because IRD didn't design/ manufacture these freewheels in such a way as to *allow* for user extraction/replacement of the cogs. Oh well. There's always another layer... And... perhaps in this case there's another actual alternative: On Jun 8, 3:56 pm, Minh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas, > > I'll tell you soon how this works out, i have a Phil Wheel IRD FW hub > and i'm about to replace it with a sunrace one, at least until i can > figure out if my IRD is trust-worthy or not. > > From my research before, i couldn't find any deal-breaker differences > between the IRD specific free-wheel phil hub and the regular one. Now, about Shimano 8-speed index shifting with 7-speed Sunrace freewheels... :) 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
