sagbuya

i have a stuck lockingring but it is a different kind of stuck. i searched the forum and all the stuck lockrings people had, they couldnt get it to unscrew.

well heres my situation. i was tightening my lockring, and i guess i was tightening it too much because just like over-tightening a milk gallon, the lockring became loose again. i looked at it and i guess i stripped the hell out of it.

so i paid my dues and started to try taking the lockring off. after 5 minutes of mindless unscrewing, i realize that the lockring is just going in circles.

i tried prying it off but the space between the cog and lockring is too little.

can someone please help!!!

Kimmo

Is that on a cassette? If so, you've prolly trashed the cassette body. Take out the spindle and remove it with a 10mm allen key. Good luck salvaging the cassette if you want it... prolly require a combo of angle grinder and much dremelling.


EDIT: just noticed it's on a fixed gear. Disregard; I have NFI what goes on with those

sooprvylyn

He said it was fixed gear.

Dude if you stripped a track hubs reverse threads you trashed the hub, there is no fixing it. Likely the lockring is also trashed. Unless you got a nice track cog on there I'd just scrap the wheel if you want to ride fixed, unless you know how to build them.

Ingleside

Sounds like the hub is trashed. If you're trying to salvage the lockring cog you're going to have to try to get something in between the lockring and cog. I don't know what you've already tried but start with the smallest "wedge" you can find and work your way up. What might work is trying to pry the lock ring AND rotate it as if you were loosening it.

JiveTurkey

As others have said, the aluminum threads of the hub are stripped. It's unlikely the steel lockring's threads also stripped (the hub's would have given first).

Sixty Fiver

The hub is a goner for fixed gear use... the steel lockring will have destroyed those threads.

As it was suggested, gently pry the lockring from the cog while turing it to see if you can catch a thread and get it to release.

You may be able to use the hub as an SS if the inside threads are okay.

jgedwa

Or you could just run it as an expensive suicide hub. As long as you are running brakes and do not bet your life on your ability to skid stop, why not?

j

FBinNY 

Since the lockring and/or the hub is presumably dead, use a chain whip to loosen the sprocket then hand turn it by degrees to gently push the lockring outwards while you turn it to the right. (reverse thread).

Do it carefully, becuse while the odds are that the hub is toast, there's still the faint hope that you only stripped the innermost threads, and might be able to salvage it with a different lockring, or a spacer between the lockring and sprocket. In any case, you'll at least have the lockring off and can salvage the sprocket as a consolation prize.

sooprvylyn

While I agree that that the lockrings threads are still probably not stripped, the chances are that they are at least gouged, or will be upon removal, and could damage the next hub you try to use it on as well. You may reuse the cog, but I'd scrap the lockring unless you have money to keep purchasing new hubs. A new lockring should cost like 10-15 bucks, a new hub will cost 35+ and then you need to build a wheel. Its a lot easier to drop 10 bucks on a new lockring than having to spring for a 2nd hub if you damage the first replacement and then have to rebuild a wheel again.