[TheThinkTank] On Shop tools

[Mario Bruzzone]

With the Park Tools, you can replace just the pins--it's usually much
cheaper (and creates less waste!) than buying a whole new tool.

But yes, those are things that break all the time for us as well.

Cheers,
Mario Bruzzone
Bike Kitchen
San Francisco


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Sherief <sgaber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This is Sherief from the Austin Yellowbike, and I was hoping to pool the
> thinktank's experience with shop tools prone to breakage and the like.
> We're currently having huge issues keeping up with Chain Tools and Presta
> Valve pumps especially... it feels like not a week goes by without at least
> one of each of these tools breaking.  W/r/t the chain tools, we recently
> switched from the nicer Park tools to the cheapest we could get out of the
> catalog, but with the way those break there's effectively no net savings and
> even when they are functioning the new cheap ones are no good.  We try to
> make sure people know how to use the tools before they do, etc.  But my
> question(s) today is: Do people have any similar experience out there with
> broken/breakable tools-- specifically good ways to prevent these breakages?
> Does anyone have any recommendations for good chain tools /PV pumps that can
> withstand a bit of overeager volunteerin g?
>
>
> Best,
> Sherief
>
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