> On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:49 PM, David <davidboydle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Evening, group. Anyone here (1) run a Phil cassette hub on their Riv, and > (2) come to find the cassette does not release or install onto the hub body > without significant force/wrangling/finagling involved? It's really bizarre. > I have a Phil cassette hub on my Hilsen and I have this issue. Called Phil > today. I'm told that I have an older generation cassette hub that has 4 > pawls instead of the new 5 pawl hub body. So, Phil wants $266 from me (plus > shipping both ways) to install the current gen cassette hub and ratchet ring. > No warranty on Phil parts, apparently. Riv installed the cassette hub on my > Hilsen in 2010, and I'd very much assume the guys who built my Hilsen up > would've noticed a fussy fit between the cassette and the hub body. But how > did this happen?
I had this happen with cassette bodies that are aluminum; I don’t know if that is the case with the Phil. The cogs that were not on carriers “bit” into the softer aluminum of the cassette body. Wrestling them of was a challenge and I had to use a file to clean up the furrows raised up along the edges of the bites, if that makes any sense. When new the cassettes just slid on like they were ‘sposed ta. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
