Removing & Rebuilding A 1930s Cyclo 3 Speed Freewheel - Vintage Bicycle Restoration Sun Supalite 

Brilliant, I'll now be able to tackle my 1939 BSA Opperman Cyclo 3 speed hub!

Good patience 😎

superb watch :-)

Thanks for this I’ve just got this hub on a tandem.

Brilliant. Getting into these freewheels is always a challenge. Something that my modern bike owning chums don't have to do!

Very difficult and tedious work, well done. I disassembled a normal free hub once and convinced myself it was easier to buy and replace. Thanks for the video.

This was great, would like to see more really old stuff. Also bike with hand operated drum brakes would be cool restoration.

Awesome registration video

Nicely done. 👍🏼

That was awesome. Want to see it in action along with the drum brake and your assessment of all. Thank you!

Great job ! You appear lucky on the chain wear as well.

Thanks so much for going through this entire process. I've put apart and then rebuilt a 3 speed Cyclo freewheel just like this one today following your steps. In my case one of the 3 springs got damaged and I then had to use a guitar chrome string (0.2mm dia) to make another one, trying as much as I could to match the shape and length of the other ones. It works but because it wasn't the original one it had the tendency to stick out a bit more compared to the other two. This caused an issue then when trying the elastic band trick as now I had to keep in place 4 things instead of 3... To solve that issue I had to just put the body of the freewheel over the first sprocket then flip it and insert the pulls from that side one by one instead. For this I had to use an ordinary sewing needle to keep the spring in place as I was dropping in the pull. Just wanted to share this slightly different approach in case it comes in handy to somebody else. Thanks once more - this is great stuff!

Very well done and on camera too! Rubber band trick was interesting. I'd have thought it would stick, stretch and break (so I would have tried thread). Obviously it didn't.

Nice work but I dont think the spacers went back in the same order that they came out

Very similar to how I took a mai lard off. Destroyed mine though sadly. Although it was worn and I intended on buying a new one

Good job fella, it's cold sweat time with thoughs old freewheels , I've done a few of the atom 3 and 4 gear ones. When I strip them I've an old type zinc style dustbin. With the lid turned over so it's concave, you can place the wheel on top and if any bearing or such fall out, they will fall into the lid. Too many times crawling around the garage floor with a magnet cursing.. bon continu

Dope♡♡♡ love it

I’m going to shortly be owning a few old bikes that I’m going to modify into a faux 1920’s board tracker, and I really want to run a 3 speed rear cluster on it, and I’ll be making some wing nut type nuts for it also. Hopefully there is a more modern option I can find for it, I’m not going to be blasting around on it, but I do enjoy posing lol

16:59 Yesssss LMAO

Great video mate! What do you do with all of your restored bikes and components?

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Ahhhhhh! No soft jaws in the vice??!! Always use them when disassembling via pawl recesses, it minimises damage to freewheel body . Copper tubing is just about right. Although it's a long way around, you had to service the unit anyway, and now you are fully aware of your bike's parts....🤗

I had no idea about 3 speed free wheel. Thought that they start with 4.. That king of bike is impossible to get in my country. I had removed free wheels the same way as you.. Mostly singles. And have made my own tools for some standards. It is beneficial to have industrial machinery

The cogs are looking thick. Are they 3mm thick for 1/8" chain?

gj

I think Tom Lasher has the tool for that freewheel.