Formula Alloy Lockring -- with an idiot in charge of it

I have the same lockring as the one bottom left in the photo.

It is fucking wank.... I have been trying to get it off with a lockring tool, but without applying hardly any force the cutaways have rounded off.... (Sorry dogballs for nicking your photo and then slandering your wares!)

I am now having to use the hammer / screwdriver method.

Just to make sure I am not a complete twat. Look at the lockring in the photo, I am supposed to turn this lockring anti-clockwise correct? As in oppostite to the 'lock' direction... Please tell me this is so... I started getting confused when someone in this thread mentioned you should turn the lockring clokwise to get it off...

the lock ring comes off clockwise

Spoilsport...

Fucking fuck!!! What is the bloody lock arrow supposed to represent then!!!

Fucking turn this way to do the opposite of this word... Cunt!

This lockring is shit.
Stripped my threads on a hub. I was practising skid stopping and not only it came loose. In now resembles 8 with half of it near sprocket and other half on the other side of the thread!!
I recommend everybody changing this as soon as they get the formula hub.

i'm not a fan, hence why i'm getting rid of them. but yeah clockwise to get off.

not such a cunting lock ring now, is it?

This lockring is shit.
Stripped my threads on a hub. I was practising skid stopping and not only it came loose. In now resembles 8 with half of it near sprocket and other half on the other side of the thread!!
I recommend everybody changing this as soon as they get the formula hub.
any lockring will strip threads if it is loose and you keep skidding.

any lockring will strip threads if it is loose and you keep skidding.

It was f... tight. Then I got on a bike, tried to skid stop once, and there I had it.

I split one of these just trying to get it on nice and tight. Have since moved to Campag for a tenner a pop = perfect.

Just got it off with screwdriver and hammer.

It was caked in red hard stuff when I got it off.. I am presuming this is loctite or something similar. Grrrrrrr. (Fuji Track).

Can we avoid using the 'C' word in thread titles please?

Can we avoid using the 'C' word in thread titles please?

fixed

Thanks - nicely done too...

It was f... tight. Then I got on a bike, tried to skid stop once, and there I had it.
a lot of forumengers idea of tight, isn't tight ;)

Yeah, unlike yo...
Fuck it

those formula lockrings are unspeakably terrible. get a dura-ace and witness the massive quality difference.

or buy the silver one in the top right ;) £5

I have a formula lockring on my bike, they are indeed well soft with each notch very quickly bcoming rounded, but using care you can get them to last a long time.

Instead of going straight at the lockring with a hook spanner, follow this procedure:

Get chainwhip, rotate anti clockwise (reverse to drive) the sprocket so it tightens up even *more *against the lockring.

Then do the same thing clockwise (forward drive) on the sprocket.

Now check your lockring, should be a lot looser, in my instance I could screw it off with my hand.

Using this method means the durability of the notches of the lockring is much less important, so you can get by with a formula one for a long time.

Ok, I am now looking at removing the sprocket (which also appears to be covered in loctite crap.

Before I begin applying force (and potentially screwing more things up) can someone tell me if this is the way I need to rotate the wheel on me rotafix jobbie.

Ok, I am now looking at removing the sprocket (which also appears to be covered in loctite crap.

Before I begin applying force (and potentially screwing more things up) can someone tell me if this is the way I need to rotate the wheel on me rotafix jobbie.

If you are trying to remove the sprocket and it doesnt have a lockring on it, very simply rotate the wheel forwards while locking the cranks.

If it does have a lockring, follow my instructions above.

If you are trying to remove the sprocket and it doesnt have a lockring on it, very simply rotate the wheel backwards.

If it does have a lockring, follow my instructions above.

Well the setup above is the opposite of the method found here:

http://204.73.203.34/fisso/eng/schpignone.htm

The method in the link is for securing the sprocket -- thus the opposite would remove it, and I just did it, and it did. W00t, or whatever the saying is.

What a shabby day I am having.

eWoo, your photo is spot on. Good idea, saves confusion.

Yes, you have correctly identified the direction of rotation for unscrewing a sprocket (as long as lockring is already removed).

Rotafix is the daddy.