13 Dec
2017
13 Dec
'17
5:22 p.m.
All sounds good, the only new thing I'll add is a handy 'tool' we made: welded the FR1 freewheel remover to a small steel plate, then bolted the plate to a wall, right next to our truing stands and cone wrenches.
Several times a day it's used: push the wheel onto the tool, spin counterclockwise and off comes the free wheel. our 1st one lasted 2 years til too stripped, then made another.
Other than that, all other FW, Cassette and BB removers are on a spinning carousel we call the 'spline tree'.
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Bob Giordano
Free Cycles Missoula
Shop: 732 S. 1st St. West, ph. 541.7284
10AM-6PM Tues-Sat, www.freecycles.org
Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation
www.strans.org, mist@strans.org, 406.830.7676
Jean-François Caron wrote:
At the Bike Kitchen in Vancouver (from what I recall, having left over a year
ago), we only had the common Shimano-style freewheel and cassette tools. The
freewheel tool has a hole in it, so we just put it on a nail in the wall, the
cassette tool has a steel rod, so we stuck it in a hole in the wall next to
the aforementioned nail.
Anything other than the standard Shimano-style tools, you had to ask a
mechanic to get it behind the counter. This is both because it's less
confusing for newbies who 99% have the Shimano style, but also because a lot
of the other styles are much easier to strip, e.g. the two-knotch Suntour.
Y'all know the trick about keeping the freewheel tool engaged with a nut
right?
Jean-François
> On Dec 13, 2017, at 13:59 , Gabriel Trainer getrainer@bikefarm.org wrote:
>
> At Bike Farm we have all of the freewheel and cassette tools laid out on a
> magnetic strip so you can see the different shapes easily. Still a guess and
> check method, but better than a bin of tools thrown together.
> Gabriel
>
> On Dec 13, 2017 7:41 AM, "Ainsley Naylor" <needleandthread@gmail.com
> mailto:needleandthread@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because these are the type of tools which are SMALL, important, easy to
> break/strip, and not always cheap (hello, did you order a Maillard french
> freewheel tool off of the internet because they are super hard to find???)
> we DO keep ours in a closed bin on the table with our vices.
> Bottom bracket tools are actually kept in our special tool area at the front
> of the shop because if people can grab stuff they are more likely to break
> it :( Hell even volunteer who do know how to use these tools properly still
> abuse and break them.
>
> I guess generally we expect that volunteer will determine what tool is
> required for a repair and retrieve and explain it, rather than people
> figuring it out/finding it for themselves....
>
> NOT THE ANSWER YOU WANTED SORRY JOSH!!!!
>
> Ainsley.
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Josh Bisker <jbisker@gmail.com
> mailto:jbisker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heyyo! I've been in co-ops where they have neat ways of displaying the
> various freewheel and cassette tools, like on a board next to the hub types
> they fit. Is YOUR shop one of these? (Or do you just have 'em jumbled
> unhelpfully all together in a bin like we do?) Send a pic of what you got!
>
> tldr: show us your rad way of housing freewheel/cassette tools that makes it
> easy for folks to find the right one.
>
> EXTRA CREDIT: same question re bottom bracket tools!
>
> xoxo
>
> Josh
>
>
> Josh Bisker
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