Re: [CR]Cotter pin extractor

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:31:24 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Cotter pin extractor
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Just in case people don't know, using a hammer is often a gamble and certainly tough on the bearing, even with the usual provisos about supporting the crank with a block of wood etc. A cotter pin extractor makes removing and installing cotter pins a routine instead of a gamble. Also your odds of being able to reuse a cotter (or at least not have to straighten out the threads) increase tenfold. In the worst case, a hammer causes the cotter pin to expand a bit and you end up drilling it out which is a rotten job.

Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ greenjersey@ntlworld.com wrote:
>Isn't a cotter pin extractor called a hammer? Ray Green
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