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Old 03-20-25 | 07:07 AM
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Weogo
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From: NC USA

Bikes: 2022 HudSki Doggler

Hi Maddog,

For freewheels, we have a BAV(BigAxxVise) that holds the remover and we grunt them loose by hand.
It feels very satisfying when it breaks loose! : -)
An impact driver sounds like a useful option.
A compressor would also be handy as part of the cleaning process. Hopefully it will be oil-filled, and outside in a shed to lower the noise.
Anybody using an airline with a small diameter(1/8") steel tube to install/uninstall slide-on grips?

An 8" grinder was donated, has a wire wheel on one side. Will go to work when we have more space.
One shop uses a really low powered 6" grinder, because if someone gets their glove or a part caught in the wire wheel, the grinder will pretty much stall.

A cleaning station with a solvent tank and an ultrasonic cleaner would be sweet when there's space.
My dream is an area with a wash-down floor that has a pump pushing liquid through a filter system.
The county I live in has the cleanest water in the state.(After the paper mill shut down.)

The Tool Library has a MIG welder we can checkout as needed. I've heard of one shop welding old sockets to particularly stuck BB cups.
A volunteer brings in his torch set when needed.

Hadn't thought of a a Dremel, but we can get one pretty easily - lots of used ones floating around for low cost.

A metal lathe and mini-mill would be sweet.

VeganB, the Bosch screwdriver sounds like a time saver.

RCMoeur, Power-sanding tubes, hadn't thought of that. Lock-ectomies - yep, that's our common use of the side-grinder!
We have one patient volunteer who will sit with a bike combo lock, the ones with three-or four rings of numbers, and try every combo till it opens. The last one opened in less than fifteen minutes at something like 5-4-6.

Joe, We are in the all-hand-powered tube-filling camp. We now have one of the double-chamber pumps for tubeless tires. Compressor would be easier!
I forgot we have some 3" wire wheels for the drills.

Thanks and good health, Weogo
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