Does anyone have a cotter pin press in working condition that they would sell? I've given up on the LBS and their knowledge of SA/50's bikes. I'll have to do it myself. I may also need some different cotter pins (Raleigh Lenton) although I don't know the size yet. The heads of the pins now on the bike are flush with the side of the crank arm so I don't believe that one could tighten them anymore.
Paul Patzkowsky Longmont, Colorado
Paul I have one of those massive VAR green wrinkle-finish presses as well as a smaller chromium plated unit (brand name escapes me for now) in the stash somewhere. I have been installing and removing crank pins (We never and still refrain from calling them cotters as I was always taught that a cotter pin was something that was a split domed wire) since my first bike shop duty in the early 1960's and cannot remember ever having used a press except tp show the curious what it was.
Larry Black
Mt Airy, Md.