Originally Posted by
trailangel
I say.... never cut the spokes, that's something hackers do. Undo them. You didn't say if you had a freewheel still on the hub? Once in a while someone comes here and asks how to get a freewheel off a hub that was cut off the rim.
Originally Posted by
cudak888
The only time you cut spokes is when they're galvanized, bent beyond reuse, or if the spoke nipple is completely seized and rounded out. Period.
-Kurt
Originally Posted by
randyjawa
Loosen the spokes (important to do so first) and cut the spokes ....
....at the risk of sounding stupid, why ? What's the rationale ? I've been cutting out hubs from wheels that no longer work, and rebuilding them for at lest 25 years now, and have never had some sort of damaged hub flange or other misadventure with them in all that time. Am I tempting fate here ? I'm not going to reuse the spokes or rims, and cut at the innermost crosses with a short handled bolt cutter. They seem to work fine afterward.
What am missing ? Feel free to revile me as a hacker. I've been called worse.
