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@FatManOnAFixie
So,remember when I said the SS 18T freewheel came yesterday? Well, temptation got the better of me and I set too fitting it.
It wasn't easy.
The hardest bit was getting the existing 5sp FW off. Crikey, it'd been on there since the late 70's . I tried the 'hammer and drift' techique but nothing shifted. I didn't want to get all rufty tufty with it and damage the 2 splines so I had to do a bit of hairy chin rubbing. I came up with the idea of finding the widest spanner that'll fit in the gap between the splines (I'd already removed the cones and ball bearings + axle from the other side). A hefty 17mm spanner mounted upright in a vice fitted the bill. I held the wheel above the freewheel splines and located the spanner into them. Gently applied anticlockwise turning power via my laydee hands and whahey 'crack'.... freedom of the freewheel. Spun it off and checked the thread, schweeet.
I remembered reading somewhere on the the net that the thread on the BB is the same as the hub... ergo the locking ring on the BB can make a handy spacer to improve the chainline on a 5sp to SS conversion. It did! Look...
Jobs a good 'un (I think)...
Thats it, I've done it, 5sp to SS conversion.
Whahey! (again).
sleeps soundly