Sherief and all-<br><br>Not to be tooting corporate horn, but I&#39;ve yet to see a more durable pump than the Specialized &quot;air tool&quot; floor pump <a href="http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEqSection.jsp?sid=EquipPumps">http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEqSection.jsp?sid=EquipPumps</a>. They wholesale for 15, sell outright for around 40, and I&#39;ve pumped so danged many tires with them I can&#39;t count (shop use at the commercial operation I wrenched with went into the tens of thousands of hours without a break down- that&#39;s pretty burly).<br>
<br>Our Park chainbreaker has withstood some abuse- the trick is to keep it greased, and to be careful when you swap the (replace-able) pin pusher (ours finally cross threaded). You can get extra life out of the replaceable pin pusher tip by filing or bench-grinding down the smushed tip (get it to taper a bit, and it becomes happily self-centering). Should you BEND the tip, you can stick it in a vice and &quot;true it up&quot; again, bending it straight with a pliers.<br>
<br>In general, it pays to pay more up front, especially if stuff&#39;s replaceable.<br><br>Oh, and you can make presta air-chucks for your compressor (get a Silca brass Presta head, a short section surgical tubing, and connect it to a standard, push-button chuck with some small hose clamps... they are long lasting (and save some pumping effort for 120 psi road tires! make sure you limit out your compressors output!)).<br>
<br>In Cooperation-<br>Pete Morsch,<br>FMCBW<br><a href="http://www.fmbikeworkshop.org">www.fmbikeworkshop.org</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Sherief &lt;<a href="mailto:sgaber@gmail.com">sgaber@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello all,<br><br>This is Sherief from the Austin Yellowbike, and I was hoping to pool the thinktank&#39;s experience with shop tools prone to breakage and the like.&nbsp; We&#39;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.&nbsp; 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&#39;s effectively no net savings and even when they are functioning the new cheap ones are no good.&nbsp; We try to make sure people know how to use the tools before they do, etc.&nbsp; 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?&nbsp; Does anyone have any recommendations for good chain tools /PV pumps that can withstand a bit of overeager volunteerin
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<br><br>Best,<br><font color="#888888">Sherief<br>
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