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Numpty bike maintenance question

Genuine question to the board - that Shimano freewheel looks like it has a very similar splined fitting to the cassette lockrings, but do you use exactly the same tool for each ?

This link suggests that the freewheel removal tool is DIFFERENT to the much more common cassette lockring tool:
https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/determining-cassette-freewheel-type

The splines are much shorter but I think they interchange (now I'm thinking about it I can't remember as I have both) - that's a cassette tool in the picture above. They're often lightweight too, so as not to mar the lockring
 
I'm thinking that even if the splines match the cassette lockring tool may not be strong enough to remove a freewheel - the lockrings use a defined (and moderate) torque - freewheels, not so much ;)
 
Genuine question to the board - that Shimano freewheel looks like it has a very similar splined fitting to the cassette lockrings, but do you use exactly the same tool for each ?

This link suggests that the freewheel removal tool is DIFFERENT to the much more common cassette lockring tool:
https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/determining-cassette-freewheel-type

No they're different pattern, I have both and thought like you that the cassette tool would fit but it's ever so slightly different so I had to buy the freewheel version as well.
 


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