Re: [CR] Pulling out a "hop" from a rim ... ???

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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:28:52 -0400
From: "Eric Keller" <eekeller@psu.edu>
To: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Pulling out a "hop" from a rim ... ???


When I worked as a mechanic in the '70s we had a puller that really only worked well on steel rims. It never was that great of an idea, it's extremely difficult to do a good job on a bent rim. Aluminum will be weakened and probably start cracking soon thereafter.

I have tried straightening a Sun CR18, and the rim cracked. Eric Keller Boalsburg, Pennsylvania USA On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:09 PM, donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> Did shops use the VAR seat-chain stay straightener to pull dents out
> from rims with hops ??  Here is a picture from Sheldon Brown :
>
>  http://www.sheldonbrown.com/var/pages/var0010.html
>
> Is there another picture of a similar tool on the web? I checked Park
> Tool and Bicycle Research but found nothing.  In particular, I had
> heard in 1982 from my shop (Champaign Cycle in Champaign Illinois)
> that they had a "wire-puller" version of this tool to fix my Raleigh
> Grand Prix, after I threw the chain into the spokes and locked the
> rear wheel at roughly 25 mph.
>
> I'm wondering what people use these days to pull out hops from bent
> rims, or have rims become so disposable that nobody bothers?
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA