Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:48:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "Derek Willburn" <morganx9@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <478FF554.8070907@verizon.net>


Latest tool for me is a screwdriver that I notched in the center of the blade to clear the spokes poking through the nipples. Main problem was that the nipples were alluminum so they crumbled with the spoke wrench.
Cheers,
Derek Willburn
Long Beach, CA USA


--- Harvey Sachs wrote:


> 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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