With the Park Tools, you can replace just the pins--it&#39;s usually much cheaper (and creates less waste!) than buying a whole new tool. <br><br>But yes, those are things that break all the time for us as well.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
Mario Bruzzone<br>Bike Kitchen<br>San Francisco<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:53 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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