Well, maybe your local shop, but not in this area. Any shop owners on the list have one for sale?
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
Steven Willis <smwillis@verizon.net> wrote: Park makes a nice press still can get it at you local bike store. Or, just put a block of hard wood under the arm and bang away with a brass hammer the load goes in to the wood and saves the balls and cups. Steven Willis 1778 East Second Street Scotch Plains NJ 07076 908-322-3330 http://www.thebikestand.com
> Does anyone know where I can buy a cotter pin press? Does anyone still
manufacture these things? Last weekend, after locating some French threaded
pedals for the French-made Duprax cottered steel cranks on my recently
acquired 1952 Claud Butler, I went to install the pedals and discovered the
left crankarm was loose and could not be corrected by tightening the nut.
Fortunately, there is a local Schwinn shop which has been in business
several decades, and had a old cotter pin press, perhaps a VAR. I must
confess, I'd never seen this tool before, although I knew they existed. I
started riding as an adult in 1972. The only bike with a cottered crank I
ever owned as an adult was my very first lightweight, a Peugeot UO-8. I kep
it only about a year before moving up the a LeJeune F-70 with Stronglight
93, and never had a need to service the rank or BB on the UO=8.
>
> It appears that a press makes the job of removing and installing cottered
crank arms infinitely simpler than it would otherwise be. As I've now moved
back into the 50's with the CB, a partly assembled Rixie with nice cottered
Stronglight, and unbuilt 50's Bates and Late 50's/ early 60's Hetchins
frames, I'm going to need to learn to deal cottered cranks.
>
> Just observing the design of the cotter pin press, it appears that if
these are now unobtainable, one might be able to modify a large carpenter's
clamp to work. Anyone ever tried this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX