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Old 07-29-14, 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by SJX426
This is a crazy idea but I was wondering if an EDM tool could be made to modify cogs.
You just cut off two of the teeth from a 28 and you'd have a 26. I'd recommend cutting off two on opposite sides from each other.
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Originally Posted by rootboy
Seriously?
C'mon, RB, don't you recognize a smiley face when you don't see one?
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Originally Posted by iab
At a cost of at least $150 (for a single cog) for the foreseeable future. 3d printing is most certainly not the manufacturing process to lower costs.
3D is still new tech, one thing that seems to occur with modern tech is each generation gets cheaper, so it's $150 today, 5 years down the road it might be only $15, and 10 years down the road, it might be 15¢ Although realistically a better way to do cogs, might be to stamp cogs with a blank centre, then uses CNC to clean up and cut the centre might work better and be cheaper.
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3D is just out of the question in my lifetime. Powder metal has its uses too but very limited, 3D is worse. Tooling for stamping small volumes is out of the question from a cost perspective, even in China. CNC with what? Can't use an end mill to make square corners so it would have to be broaching or a very small second or third operation with a very small radius mill. Most cost effective would be laser or water jet if the later will cut through the thickness of a cog without leaving slag and a rough edge.

Am I missing something? I am not a machinist but have some exposure to manufacturing process and tools. Is there any machinist or industrial engineer out there that can help?
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Originally Posted by jimmuller
C'mon, RB, don't you recognize a smiley face when you don't see one?
Usually, yes. Or …no. Or…...
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Funny, I had this same thought (the dearth of good freewheels in with ranges I want) on Sunday. I'm almost ready to toss in the towel and switch my McLean to a freehub and indexed gearing. It currently has Campagnolo Nuovo Record derailleurs and hubs. It has a 14-28 Shimano freewheel which is starting to make noise while pedaling. I think the chain isn't meshing well with the teeth on the freewheel. I'd like a higher top gear, i.e. 13T smallest cog. The 28T cog makes noise because I'm pushing the limit of the RD, resulting in the pulley, chain, and cog all being squashed together. So ideally, I'd like a 13-26 7-speed freewheel. Do they exist? I would settle for a 6-speed, I suppose.
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Originally Posted by SJX426
3D is just out of the question in my lifetime. Powder metal has its uses too but very limited, 3D is worse. Tooling for stamping small volumes is out of the question from a cost perspective, even in China. CNC with what? Can't use an end mill to make square corners so it would have to be broaching or a very small second or third operation with a very small radius mill. Most cost effective would be laser or water jet if the later will cut through the thickness of a cog without leaving slag and a rough edge.

Am I missing something? I am not a machinist but have some exposure to manufacturing process and tools. Is there any machinist or industrial engineer out there that can help?
I am an aerospace engineer. You are fine. For high strength metal needs to have a crystal structure. For this it needs to be worked (forged, rolled) and/or heat treated. The primary application for 3D parts in my business is marketing, and for this they are very, very good. Aerospace companies used to have airbrush artists painting "artist's conceptions" of new products, now it's all CAD and computer animation. The primary technical application is tooling, and that is growing fast as the machines get bigger and faster. But it's a rare thing we send out the door with any 3D printed parts on it.

Looking at a 7-speed cassette I have here, the splines are far from perfect, it's not the most precise thing I've ever seen. The important dimensions to match would be the minor diameter and the edges of the splines. You could probably do it with EDM or water jet. The big problem is the enormous variety of freewheels and limited number of customers.
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Originally Posted by noglider
Funny, I had this same thought (the dearth of good freewheels in with ranges I want) on Sunday. I'm almost ready to toss in the towel and switch my McLean to a freehub and indexed gearing. It currently has Campagnolo Nuovo Record derailleurs and hubs. It has a 14-28 Shimano freewheel which is starting to make noise while pedaling. I think the chain isn't meshing well with the teeth on the freewheel. I'd like a higher top gear, i.e. 13T smallest cog. The 28T cog makes noise because I'm pushing the limit of the RD, resulting in the pulley, chain, and cog all being squashed together. So ideally, I'd like a 13-26 7-speed freewheel. Do they exist? I would settle for a 6-speed, I suppose.
If you can maintain enough fitness, you ought to be happy with the Sunrace 13-25t 7-speed freewheels. I can still push a 39-25t low gear up anything around here if my legs are still working at such a point during the ride where the road heads vertical.
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Originally Posted by dddd
If you can maintain enough fitness, you ought to be happy with the Sunrace 13-25t 7-speed freewheels. I can still push a 39-25t low gear up anything around here if my legs are still working at such a point during the ride where the road heads vertical.
Oh, there I go. Perfect. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by noglider
Funny, I had this same thought (the dearth of good freewheels in with ranges I want) on Sunday. I'm almost ready to toss in the towel and switch my McLean to a freehub and indexed gearing. It currently has Campagnolo Nuovo Record derailleurs and hubs. It has a 14-28 Shimano freewheel which is starting to make noise while pedaling. I think the chain isn't meshing well with the teeth on the freewheel. I'd like a higher top gear, i.e. 13T smallest cog. The 28T cog makes noise because I'm pushing the limit of the RD, resulting in the pulley, chain, and cog all being squashed together. So ideally, I'd like a 13-26 7-speed freewheel. Do they exist? I would settle for a 6-speed, I suppose.
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Originally Posted by ThermionicScott
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As I said, I do want to, and I just might do it. I have a Tiagra drivetrain sitting around, barely used. I bought it from another BF member. I know it would be unaesthetic, to say the least, to put it on my McLean, but I think it would improve my enjoyment of the bike.
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At least your bike doesn't have a french-threaded freewheel like my Peugeot
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I did it again. Just bought an Italian-threaded 15t-25t Everest FW for $16. My resistance to buying superfluous bike parts is futile. Between the 10 or so that are installed and about a dozen spares, I think I'm good on FWs for at least the next decade.

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Originally Posted by Armacham
At least your bike doesn't have a french-threaded freewheel like my Peugeot
Yellow Jersey lists a limited number of French threaded freewheels. Buy now before they're all snapped up!
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@Darth Lefty - Thanks! I sold CAD/CAM/CAE SW for a short period of time and we were using and selling 3D machines back in mid 90's. Great for marketing, no good for usable parts.

So what is the most popular freewheel hub that would be a candidate as a "standard" for modified freehub cogs?
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Originally Posted by noglider
As I said, I do want to, and I just might do it. I have a Tiagra drivetrain sitting around, barely used. I bought it from another BF member. I know it would be unaesthetic, to say the least, to put it on my McLean, but I think it would improve my enjoyment of the bike.
Looking fabulous trumps function, you know that.
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Originally Posted by gaucho777
My resistance to buying superfluous bike parts is futile. Between the 10 or so that are installed and about a dozen spares, I think I'm good on FWs for at least the next decade.
That sounds familiar. There's the old saying, "The man who dies with the most toys wins."
Always hated that saying. The man who dies with the most toys…is dead.

But, in the mean time
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Originally Posted by Armacham
At least your bike doesn't have a french-threaded freewheel like my Peugeot
Even more of an argument for servicing, maintaining and cleaning your freewheel on an annual basis.

What brand freewheel and what range? The reason I ask is if the internals are maintained, the cogs can potentially be replaced.
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Seems to me that there's a future reserve of mid/wide range 7 spd. freewheels on all the Kent bikes etc. being pumped through the big box stores these past years. Not high end, I know, but they seem to function, at any rate, and sport modern, twisted tooth design.
I have one in use, giving good service, and one removed due to non-preferred gearing, in my stash somewhere.
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Originally Posted by elcraft
Yellow Jersey lists a limited number of French threaded freewheels. Buy now before they're all snapped up!
Actually just emailed them and they said they are all out.

Originally Posted by pastorbobnlnh
Even more of an argument for servicing, maintaining and cleaning your freewheel on an annual basis.

What brand freewheel and what range? The reason I ask is if the internals are maintained, the cogs can potentially be replaced.
Yep, I'm planning to stay on top of that. It's an Atom 77 6 speed. I believe it's 13-24, but I'll have to double check when I get home. I figure worst case scenario, I can get an english threaded one and transfer over the cogs.
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