A couple of days passed before I remembered exactly where I'd carefully stored the old freewheel that I wanted to install on my new wheel.

The old freewheel is a Suntour which I rode around with briefly over 20 years ago before I replaced it with something else for some reason that I can no longer remember. I didn't throw this nice part away - it emigrated with us.

The name now belongs to a Taiwanese company, but the original Suntour was Japanese. They were very innovative and made high quality parts for reasonable prices. My freewheel is from the early 1990s. It's a quality part with replaceable sprockets (I remember bike shops having a choice of sprockets back in the day) and it has a quiet clutch mechanism. Nice. No tick tick tick when free-wheeling.

Suntour had their own indexed gearing system and in principle this isn't supposed to be compatible with Shimano's SIS, but with a bit of careful adjustment it's working more or correctly.

Of course I'm still going to take apart the freehub from the other wheel and see if I can fix that as well. It's nice to have a spare.
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