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Is this freehub fooled?

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  • 10-03-2017 9:03pm
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    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,788 ✭✭✭✭


    This is a Fulcrum Quattro wheel, not 6 months old and is this safe to use or do I need a new freehub?


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    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,477 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Your thread title certainly fooled me.....


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    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    What's wrong with it? Dents in the splines? If so, that's quite common and shouldn't be a problem.


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    TheBlaaMan
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    It's fine. Not ideal, but not unusual. I would lightly greased it before putting the cassette back on .


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    dahat
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    Cassette was a bitch to get off and wasn't sure about getting it back on without forcing too much.


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    nilhg
    Registered Users Posts: 5,145 ✭✭✭nilhg


    dahat wrote: »
    Cassette was a bitch to get off and wasn't sure about getting it back on without forcing too much.

    Light rub of a file to get the roughest burrs off won't do any harm


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    Buzwaldo
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    You're putting out too much power. Ease up.


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    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,788 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Buzwaldo wrote: »
    You're putting out too much power. Ease up.

    Clearly.


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    Thud
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    Splines are made from a soft enough material, you can get heavier metal ones (usually on cheaper wheels) but they'd add to weight of wheels.
    Should be fine, removing the cassette itself will remove some of the burrs.


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    doozerie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    It's a well known and largely inevitable consequence of steel cassettes on aluminium freehub bodies. It only happens on the individual sprockets, not on the innermost ones which are frequently bound together to move as a single block.

    And of course the reason the individual sprockets are hard to remove is because they are buried in the freehub so you have to dis-engage them before you can slide them off, which can be tricky. Using two chainwhips rotated in opposite directions can help there.


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    Alek
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    Doesn't it cause problems with shifting if some cogs are offset?


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    doozerie
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    Alek wrote: »
    Doesn't it cause problems with shifting if some cogs are offset?

    It certainly would if the cogs were offset enough, but whenever I've encountered a freehub body where single cogs had dug in I didn't notice any appreciable difference (either such movement is well within the margin of error, or I'm broken ...I'm going with the former).


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