On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:47 -0700, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote: > On Jun 8, 12:49 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:38 -0700, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote: > > > Is it reasonable to think that a *well-built* freewheel > > > mechanism would outlast at least some of the cogs? Those bearings > > > don't really "bear" a lot. And who knows... even the spacers may be > > > useful. > > > > Certainly. Back in the Good Old Days, there used to be the Cog Board, > > with individual sprockets. Only the middle ones ever wore out, so > > instead of replacing an entire freewheel you replaced the worn out > > sprockets, re-using the freewheel body and the largest and smallest > > sprockets. It worked then, why wouldn't it work now? Only reason I can > > think of is the lack of availability of replacement sprockets. > > Oh sweet irony! > > "replacement sprockets" (in the form of lightly-used failed > freewheels) are exactly what I have! > > Of course, according to the IRD web-site, I'm on my own if I ever try > to disassemble/re-assemble one of their freewheels. The web-site > provides no help and makes it clear that it violates the warranty. > Though I wish I had help, the warranty thing doesn't bother me. > Warranty-shmarranty. But it *does* bother me thinking that the > *reason* I'll be "on my own" may be because IRD didn't design/ > manufacture these freewheels in such a way as to *allow* for user > extraction/replacement of the cogs. > > Oh well. There's always another layer...
This situation has more layers of irony than a Dobos Torte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobos_torte Perhaps the greatest of all is that so many people believed that the path to greater wheel reliability was via Phil hubs and freewheels for reduced dish, and gave up freehubs (which have demonstrated astonishing reliability at all price points) and cassettes (which, although not as easily customized as in the Good Old Days of the Cog Board, at least come in a wide variety of gearings and can still be customized to some extent). I think we all know who has to answer for that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
