Re: [CR]Where to clamp that (classic) bike in the work stand!

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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:42:17 -0700
From: "Brian Baylis" <rocklube@adnc.com>
To: Mark Petry <mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Where to clamp that (classic) bike in the work stand!
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Mark,

I realize that parhaps most home mechanics don't have a bottom bracket cup tool, but in my opinion if you're a vintage person; if you have only one professinal tool in your collection it should be a good bb cup tool. Main reason is that at that point you clamp the tool in the solidly mounted vice and use the frame for leverage to tighen the cup. A BB cup wrench is probably your frames' worst enemy. I've seen more funny (not humorous funny)stuff happen with bb wrenches than everything else put together. I haven't used a bb cup wrench since my first campy tool case in 1974. The fixed cup holder is certainly in the top three tools usagewise in my collection. Worth looking into.

Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA
>
> OK, but what if you have to do some really serious torquing on a stuck fixed
> cup, are'nt you overstressing the seat lug ? Even if I hold the stay or
> something to counteract the torque of the fixed cup wrench, my preference is
> to clamp the seat tube down low, carefully, not too tite, bearing in mind
> that the compound leverage of the clamp CAN crush the tube.
>
> Yes, for normal tuneups and stuff I always clamp the seat tube.
>
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> Hmmm... I have some consumer brand folding bike stand, I clamp the bike
> lightly on the toptube with the front end slightly lower so the fork doesn't
> rotate, never had a problem but then all my bikes are old and similar in
> tube
> size I guess. I never clamp to the seat tube because it has all them
> graphics
> and decals and thingies.
>
> Ted, sometimes baffled in Berkeley at what people find disconcerting