Help Sprockets stuck together

alzander
alzander Posts: 10
edited September 2017 in Workshop
Hi, I've just removed the shimano cassette from my old bike (with no problem), but now the actual sprockets are stuck together. It's like the spacers have become a glue. It wasn't cleaned for over a year, which sort of explains it. Anyway, is there an easy way to get them apart? Using a screwdriver as a crowbar doesn't seem to be working...

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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Most cassettes don't come apart except for a few smallest cogs.
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  • alzander
    alzander Posts: 10
    Yeah that explains it, thanks a lot! I'm glad I asked before doing some damage. I've only taken two cassettes off before and for both all the sprockets came apart :roll:
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    scrub the back of the cassette clean and you will see one of two things:

    either small rivets holding the cassette together

    or

    2mmallen bolts holding it together.

    The Allen bolts you undo with a normal Allen key, the rivets you can drill the heads off.

    then dismantle etc
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.

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