Bike Project Part IV

The next step is to remove all the components that I don't need.

My cassette fits on an old style Shimano Uniglide hub. The freewheel hub has equal spaced splines where the first five cogs slide on, then the smallest cog screws onto the hub to lock the whole thing in position.

I figured that to remove the cassette I'd need two chain whips. One to hold the cassette and one to turn the smallest cog. Rather than buy these - I decided to make them out of a couple of pieces of old angle bracket that I found lying around and some pieces of my old chain.

Here's what they look like:

And in action:

And the final result:

You can see the external thread on the hub.