Re: [CR]Campy Dishing tool search

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From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Campy Dishing tool search
To: rhawks@lmi.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:58:34 EST

In a message dated 11/15/02 4:50:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, rhawks@lmi.net writes:


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>
> Are these tools still made/sold? If so, where would one find
> them? Anyone have one for sale?
>
> I don't know if other people are like me in this regard, but
> I sort of have a fondness for using the tools that I first
> became familiar with, when I was learning to wrench on bikes.
> I used the Campy dishing tool when I worked in shops 20-25 years
> ago. Are there better tools than this out on the market now?
>
> thanks,
>
> rob hawks
>

I have also used the Campt tool, there is one that comes in the 5 tool kits I have somewhere in the stashes, but these aren't for sale yet on the CR since I don't have a clue on prices.

Anyway, I usually just flop flip my wheels back and forth in the stand to keep an eye on dish, and don't even trust the centering of the 'perfect center'stands.

At home, where I have fewer than the average home mechanic aresnal of tools, I use the fork or the rear triangleof my frames.

A tool makes it easier when a customer walks in- I needn't seek a frame or an untrusted stand.

All the tool has to do is hold a place in the moment it takes to get from one side to the other. A bent wire, coat hanger, angle iron, or wooden contraption for those so inclined. The Campy, Var, and Eldi dishing tools are the finest examples as far a elegance and functionality go. The Wheelsmith folding is the most novel, it fits in a jersey pocket for the rider who worries about dish while on the road

Larry Black
Mt airy , Md.