[CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:39:48 -0500
From: "Harvey Sachs" <hmsachs@verizon.net>
Subject: [CR]Homemade tools in your toolbox
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Wayne D asked:

Hi all, while I was having a tidy up in my toolboxes, the thought came across me, "how many others out there have special homemade tools that could be used by others", send a list to the list if you are prepared to supply details that could enable someone to duplicate. +++++++++++++++++ From one swap meet or another, I have two home-made two-notch freewheel pullers. each (and they came as a pair) is a strip of heavy sheet metal, bent into a "U", with a hole in the center part (for the axle or QR) and two notches on the legs to grip the FW. Very elegant, and might have worked well. Not my own creation.

not to mention the various cheap screwdrivers that have had blades reground for special functions for bikes, locks, or whatever.

harvey sachs
mcLean va