Valve Core Extractor

Carol Hague said:

I have incurred the wrath of Himself by accidentally binning his valve
core extractor. I shall try hunting down an LBS next week (we've just
moved, so we haven't found them yet) but in the meantime does anybody
know somewhere online where I might find one of these beasts please?

Mr Google has been uncoperative thus far, alas.

What is a valve core extractor? And would it, plus a new valve core, be
any use in making a tube I ruined by snapping off the centre bit of the
volve assembly? And where would I get these?

Daniele
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Carol Hague said:

I have incurred the wrath of Himself by accidentally binning his valve
core extractor. I shall try hunting down an LBS next week (we've just
moved, so we haven't found them yet) but in the meantime does anybody
know somewhere online where I might find one of these beasts please?

OK, panic over, I've now found the ones inside the bottles of Slime we
bought to put in my trike tyres.

I'll be the red-faced person in the corner over here then....
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Carol
"This might as well say "bing tiddle tiddle bong".
It's complete gibberish!" - Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis

D.M. Procida said:

Carol Hague said:

I have incurred the wrath of Himself by accidentally binning his valve
core extractor.

What is a valve core extractor? And would it, plus a new valve core, be
any use in making a tube I ruined by snapping off the centre bit of the
volve assembly? And where would I get these?

That sounds like a Presta valve - some are replaceable, some aren't -
Himself says if they are they've usually got different coloured bits,
but that the valve core thing is more a Shrader (car-type) valve thing.

I always use Shrader tubes, because I am exceedingly clumsy and prone to
break Presta valves if I so much as look at them funny. Schraders are a
lot more forgiving to the ham-handed among us, I find.

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Carol
"This might as well say "bing tiddle tiddle bong".
It's complete gibberish!" - Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis

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D.M. Procida <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Carol Hague said:

I have incurred the wrath of Himself by accidentally binning his valve
core extractor.

What is a valve core extractor? And would it, plus a new valve core, be
any use in making a tube I ruined by snapping off the centre bit of the
volve assembly? And where would I get these?

Quoted message said:

That sounds like a Presta valve - some are replaceable, some aren't -
Himself says if they are they've usually got different coloured bits,
but that the valve core thing is more a Shrader (car-type) valve thing.

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I always use Shrader tubes, because I am exceedingly clumsy and prone to
break Presta valves if I so much as look at them funny. Schraders are a
lot more forgiving to the ham-handed among us, I find.

Dust cap/Schraeder valve core extractors would be available at a
H*lf*rd's or motospares place not too far from most people...

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