Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:55:57 -0600 (CST)
From: <smwillis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Harvey Sachs <hmsachs@verizon.net>


It sound like fun, any rules as to time line. The years the tool was made or for what year the bike was made that the tool works?
>From: Harvey Sachs <hmsachs@verizon.net>
>Date: 2008/01/17 Thu PM 06:39:48 CST
>To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox
>Wayne D asked:
>
>Hi all, while I was having a tidy up in my toolboxes, the thought came
>across me, "how many others out there have special homemade tools that
>could be used by others", send a list to the list if you are prepared to
>supply details that could enable someone to duplicate.
>+++++++++++++++++
> From one swap meet or another, I have two home-made two-notch freewheel
>pullers. each (and they came as a pair) is a strip of heavy sheet
>metal, bent into a "U", with a hole in the center part (for the axle or
>QR) and two notches on the legs to grip the FW.
>Very elegant, and might have worked well. Not my own creation.
>
>not to mention the various cheap screwdrivers that have had blades
>reground for special functions for bikes, locks, or whatever.
>
>harvey sachs
>mcLean va
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