On 6 Oct 2006 13:23:42 -0700, "bfd" <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Derk wrote:
>> Stephen Greenwood wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know about your hub, but I had this problem once with a freehub
>> > body made of aluminum.
>> It's a nearly new hub. It's absolutely undamaged. The only cassette that
>> won't fit is the one I took off yesterday. All other cassettes that I have
>> here fit without a problem....
>>
>> > The steel cassette created small notches in the
>> > soft freehub body. Filing them down solved the problem.
>> I know that can happen, but this hub is undamaged.
>>
>So if the *only* cassette that won't fit on your freehub is that one
>steel cassette, have you inspected it? Maybe you some how damaged the
>cassette. Alternatively, have you tried mounting that cassette onto
>another freehub body?
>
>Cassettes are relatively cheap, they're consumables, so if that one
>particular cassette doesn't fit, use another.
Dear BFD,
True, other cassettes work, so the problem is easily solved.
But how the hell do you damage a reasonably new cassette so that it
won't fit back over the hub?
If someone like me had posted the question, dismissing it would be
quite sensible. My first thought was to ask if Derk had tried putting
the cassette on upside-down to see if it would fit part-way on, but
luckily it occurred to me that the spline pattern is asymmetrical and
the idea would never work, so no one will know just how dumb I--
Anyway, Derk strikes me as a fairly competent poster when it comes to
such matters, so I'm very curious to know what happened. If such
things can happen to posters like him, it will be good for posters
like me to learn painlessly how to avoid it.
Somehow I doubt that Derk took the cassette apart and reassembled all
the cogs and reassembled them bottom-side up. (I once put the front
wheels back on a Dodge army ambulance with the dishing outward instead
of inward, so I'm more alert to such mistakes than posters of normal
intelligence.)
I liked Stephen's idea of hard steel notching soft aluminum, but Derk
replied that this isn't the problem.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel