[TheThinkTank] On Shop tools

[joshua muir]

forgot to mention that I think it's good to loctite (mild) the pins in the
park chain tools-  keeps them from unthreading and destroying themselves,
but still come out super easy w/ 6mm wrench (or is it 7mm?)

josh

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Mario Bruzzone <mario.bruzzone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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