How To Make A Cheap & Easy Cotter Pin Press For Cottered Cranks
I show how to make a cotter pin press tool for cottered crankset removal from old bikes. This can be made for around $5. Park Tool used to make a cotter pin press (CR-2) to remove cranks, but they don’t any more. To make the press, I use wide throat top beam clamps that I …Read more »
How To Make Easy Thread Chaser Tool To Fix Damaged Threads
I show how to make a cheap, easy, homemade DIY thread chasing tool and repair moderately damaged threads. In this case it was a bike frame bottle cage mount. But the method can be used for other threaded spots as well. I could have used a tap, but a tap will cut threads and remove …Read more »
Park Tool SBC-1 Spoke Bearing and Cotter Pin Gauge
A viewer asked about this tool and how to use it to measure spokes. So I made this video showing off the various features. For a tool that costs less than $10, I use it a lot. Here is the tool on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003L9ED0K/ref=nosim/rjthebikeguy-20
Filling A Dualco Mini Grease Gun
I show how to refill a Dualco Mini Grease Gun. I plan to use it in my work on repairing bikes. There are some other mini grease guns that are similar to this one including one sold at Harbor Freight. Here is a link to the Dualco Mini Grease Gun at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0025UGOVW/ref=nosim/rjthebikeguy-20
Impact Wrench Disassembly/Assembly
I bought a used air impact wrench which worked, but felt like something was wrong and it was making a strange noise. A good oiling through the oil port would have likely fixed the problem. But I decided to take it apart. So in this video I disassemble a Sears Craftsman Air Impact Wrench model …Read more »