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Originally Posted by glatt
Perfect!
That's exactly what I was looking for.
And I did need to take it fully apart. I should have taken pictures of the two rags and 30 Q-tips worth of foul grit and grime I got out of the bearings in the cassette. It moved, but sounded like there was a pound of sand in the bearings.
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Looks like you solved this one, but I'll give you my two cents.
I took apart a freewheel a couple of times during my hyper vigilant OCD phase. When I worked at the shop we'd just rinse them in parts cleaner for a while and blow them out with compressed air. The sand isn't really a problem as most of the time the pawls are engaged and the free wheel isn't spinning, and when it is spinning it doesn't matter how messed up the bearing or races are for the most part. It's not like a wheel or Bottom Bracket where the bearings are under pressure while turning.
There is a bigger risk of things not going back together and then failing in use. Happened to a friend of mine whose freewheel suddenly froze and launched him off his bike onto his head. I wasn't there, that's what he claimed.