Ready to give up the Silca pump

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08-14-07 | 01:25 PM

#26

cadillacmike68

Campy NR / SR forever

Joined: Jun 2007

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From: FL

Bikes: 1977-78 Raleigh Professional - bought new, 1987 Shogun 400 (for the lady)

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Originally Posted by Kommisar89

I love that fancy Silca crest and my Campy pump umbrella. And it was oem on my bike. But, yeah, it's pretty clean with out the pump so I'm not in any hurry.

Same here, but I had to ditch the campy umbrella head though because on my bike it was right over the 531 decal and ruined it

so, I got a frame fitting pump, black, but it's still nice.

08-14-07 | 02:08 PM

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cudak888

www.theheadbadge.com

Joined: Sep 2005

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From: Southern Florida

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bigbossman

Ahhh.....

Two things:

1) I have an older TP-5 "Team", that I bought used on CL over 2 years ago. Sturdy as all get-out, and works great. I had to call Blackburn to get a pump head rebuild kit, as I wore out the internal plastic nibs airing up so many bikes with it. The sent the kit cheerfully, and for free.

2) Thanks for the warning on the "Air Tower 5"!! They had offered to exchange, free of charge, my old pump for a new one. I had intended to take them up on it, but never got around to sending in my old unit because I kept getting sidetracked. Now, I don't think I will.

Thanks for the warning!!!

Bossman, I'd give my two (or four, rather) back teeth for that TP-5 Team pump. Not only is the head properly rebuildable (even if a bit hard to manage), it WORKS, as opposed to the Air Tower 5.

Don't bother with their replacement nonsense either. It'll take two weeks for you to get it, as they use the slowest shipping possible. In my case, they sent out an Air Tower 4, which required me to send it BACK (with a pre-paid, UPS Ground sticker), and wait another three weeks for them to ship out the Air Tower 5, for they could not (or rather, would not) ship out the Air Tower 5 until they received the Air Tower 4 back. I got back at them with my review of the Air Tower 5's lousiness on Epinions...

-Kurt

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