rear hub cassette/block removal

Posted on Tue 28th, January 2020

• #1

saxby's

amongst a box of odds and ends I've bought is a vintage large flange rear hub with the 5 speed block still firmly screwed on, no rim or spokes so I'm not sure how the spokes were removed as the large cog is bigger than the flange........my problem is how to remove the block (I have the correct tool) as I don't want to damage the hub, are there any tips from knowledgeable forum members? I'm not worried about damaging the 5 speed block as I have a spare when I get round to building up
• #2

Howard

Bunch of nails hammered through a block of wood that match the spoke holes in the hub. Clamp it in a bench vise, apply the hub, chain whip the block off.
• #3

saxby's

......now there's a thought! will try it out thanks

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.