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Will a Park FR-5 fit all Shimano cassettes? Next door neighbour has a cheap and cheerful hybrid and has asked me to make sure it is safe for use after a couple of years sat in the garage. Only thing that needs sorting is the cassette wobbles slightly and needs tightening up, but my cassette lock ring tool seems to be a tad to big to fit. Standard twelve splines on a 14-28 7-speed cassette. Do I need a different tool to tighten the cassette up or am I missing the obvious? Cheers.
Hit it with a hammer and it will fit - its a lot harder to get out mind
Serious suggestion it is probably just a very tight fit due to low tolerances on a cheap part IMHO
They never changed the size that I am aware of and I have had the same tool from 7 speed onwards
Are you sure its a cassette and not a 7sp free wheel.
And if it is a free wheel you can tighten it up anyway
+1 orangeboy, if it's a freewheel (rather than a cassette) then your FR-5 won't fit. [url= http://www.parktool.com/product/freewheel-remover-fr-1-2 ]This is what you'll need to remove a freewheel[/url] and as orangeboy says, tightening a freewheel requires no tools at all.
Cheers, I'll have another look tonight when I get home. How would you go about tightening it without tools, if indeed it is a freewheel?
pedal it.
HIghly unlikely a freewheel would be loose enough to wobble.
I'd go with spunkyard's advice.
Freewheels can wobble very easy, if they are not utterly shagged and worn out you can take up the slack with a pin spanner and some shims. I did it once on my paperround bike as i was too skint/tight to buy a new one. Worked fine for another 18 months of hard graft daily on my emelle cheetah. Those were the days.