Re: [CR]Help: the ELDI Whatzit...

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:44:55 -0500
To: Harvey M Sachs <sachs@erols.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Help: the ELDI Whatzit...


Harvey M Sachs wrote:
>Trying to figure out the use of an ELDI tool I found recently.
>Closely resembles the classic ELDI or VAR pliers-type chassis, two
>iron beam about 7" - 8" long, with pivot bolt located to give high
>leverage/small jaw opening. Flat-wound spring between the handles
>to hold it open. The Jaws are the puzzling part:
>
>1) don't open but maybe a cm or so (1/2")
>2) Working ends are replacable little cylinders, with concave faces
>and fairly sharp lips.
>3) When closed, the faces are offset front-to-back from each other
>instead of lining up. Buck-tooth by a mm or two.

It's a spoke-snipper-offer. Back in the bad old days of simple channel rims, the spokes would sometimes protrude past the ends of the nipples. They would need to be filed or ground down so as to not puncture the tube.

This ELDI tool is s'posed to have the longer jaw rest against the edge of the nipple head, and the shorter jaw shears off the protruding end of the spoke. Never worked too well in my experience, I used to prefer a small grinding wheel in a hand-held electric drill.

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