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Old 09-04-15 | 03:31 PM
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Bikes: It's complicated.

Originally Posted by Grand Bois
We used a VAR press at the Peugeot/Raleigh/Columbia shop where I worked. I like my Bikesmith Design press better.

Historic VAR Bicycle Tools Catalogue 7 Cotter Pin Press, 371 Vise, 63 Hammer, 354 TA Pin Driver
+1 on the VAR press. I used to think VAR mean cotter press, it was the only tool from them I saw for years. And I'm not old enough to have used it much, I actually had an "old-timer" (to me) show me how to use it.
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