No Italian Freewheels Anywhere?
08-29-20, 10:20 PM
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No Italian Freewheels Anywhere?
Hello all. I have a Campagnolo rear hub I was planning on building up. It's stamped "Italy 35 x 24F" so I'm quite sure that means it takes an Italian freewheel. I tried searching around for one on the internet and couldn't find. Surely some manufacturer is making them for an affordable price (the likes of Sunrace)? Best I could find was 90$ freewheel cobs on eBay. I'll settle for singlespeed I just don't want this hub to go to waste.
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Chances are there are no manufacturers of freewheels still making Italian-threaded ones.
From this page.
All recent freewheels and threaded hubs, regardless of where made, use ISO threading. The older British and Italian standards use the same thread pitch but a very slightly different thread diameter, and are generally interchangeable. However, for strong riders and on tandems, it is best not to mix and match -- freewheels sometimes do strip the threads of aluminium hubs.
From this page.
All recent freewheels and threaded hubs, regardless of where made, use ISO threading. The older British and Italian standards use the same thread pitch but a very slightly different thread diameter, and are generally interchangeable. However, for strong riders and on tandems, it is best not to mix and match -- freewheels sometimes do strip the threads of aluminium hubs.
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Per Saint Sheldon, British and Italian-thread hubs will both work with ISO-threaded freewheels. Looking at the dimensions, the pitch is the same and the thread diameter is only 3 thousandths bigger.
I've done it for decades, since I've mostly used Suntour and Sachs freewheels, and have had several Campy-hub wheels (and one pair with Gallis). The freewheels always spin on easily and come off with the same effort regardless of whether the hubs were Japanese or Italian.
--Shannon
I've done it for decades, since I've mostly used Suntour and Sachs freewheels, and have had several Campy-hub wheels (and one pair with Gallis). The freewheels always spin on easily and come off with the same effort regardless of whether the hubs were Japanese or Italian.
--Shannon
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