rim tool bicycle research

Download Ch. 17 of the Barnett's manual (it's free):
http://www.bbinstitute.com/manual.htm
Pages 29-31 will tell you about fixing rims.

In short, the Bicycle Research tool only bends one side of a rim
inward. The top of the jaws is narrower than the bottom. Also, the
top of the jaws is designed to brace against the bottom of the braking
surface, while the top pushes higher up on the other side of the rim.
As used in the picture, the left side of the rim will be bent inward.
A crescent wrench will bend a rim outward. It might also leave rough
spots in the rim, which can be smoothed out with a few passes with a
file. Most rim repairs can also be accomplished with 2x4's, a rubber
mallet, and a little creativity.

-Vee

Thanks for the Barnett link!! I didn't copy the rim section when I
had a hold of a copy via ILLoan. The bike research tool has only one
position? Not much fun for $40 and the tool's been on the market for?
Why does the tool exist? There's a warehouse outside portland filled
withum?
I was hoping the tool was an miracle worker-pryprypry and ride true.
My metal working ability distends to knowing to work from the middle
out, east in the northern hemis.. except when but I can't explain
that which is where the BR rim tool supposed to enter the picture.
I firmly believe brownie or hozan's gnomes have one-a small vise fits
over the rim with a threaded extendable in both directions rod to fit
into the rim pressing against a vise surface on the outside with a
threaded hole for a rod from the outside,
Does this exist?

thanks for the barnett link!! i didn't copy the rim section when i
had a hold of a copy via illoan. the bike research tool has only one
position? not much fun for $40 and the tool's been on the market for?
why does the tool exist? there's a warehouse outside portland filled
withum?
i was hoping the tool was an miracle worker-pryprypry and ride true.
my metal working ability distends to knowing to work from the middle
out, east in the northern hemis.. except when but i can't explain
that which is where the br rim tool supposed to enter the picture.
i firmly believe brownie or hozan's gnomes have one-a small vise fits
over the rim with a threaded extendable in both directions rod to fit
into the rim pressing against a vise surface on the outside with a
threaded hole for a rod from the outside,
does this exist?

think of it-squeezing the rim back together without anxiety like with a
parks chain tool-yawl know sometimes yawl hit it and the other side
develops beri-beri.
one factor in it's not exisiting aside from my not having a machine
shop.
another is rim sides may differ so much that's it's not feasible
marketwise.
and are the people intereted in fooling with such tools-do they buy
CR-18's or the wonder rims from colorado cyclist? only the intelligent
LBS knows.
one chilling factor-if a small machine shop owner came up with an idea
for producing $$$ from a marketable design
his second thought might be "why bother" caws the chinese producing
the $2 adjustable wrench for the world market (singapore LBS) are gonna
kill your initiative.

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The bike research tool has only one position? Not much fun for $40 and
the tool's been on the market for? Why does the tool exist?

It's designed to fix sloppy seams. As I said before, creatively mix in
a mallet and some blocks of wood, and you can work miracles. I think
your idea about a "threaded extendable in both directions rod to fit
into the rim" is a needlessly complicated surrogate for a block of
wood.

-Vee

Quoted message said:

The bike research tool has only one
position? Not much fun for $40 and the tool's been on the market for?
Why does the tool exist?

Look at the picture again. It's got three positions. I used to use it
all the time on steel rims that kids dinged by running into curbs. That
was back when I worked in a Schwinn shop- lots of steel rims to work
on.

Quoted message said:

There's a warehouse outside portland filled
withum?

Geez. Look at a map, willya? Ashland's at the opposite end of Oregon
from Portland. I live in Washington state and I'm 275 miles closer to
downtown Portland than Ashland.

Jeff

ashland! one of the top ports in the us of a AND! one of the largest
piles of smoldering tree bark: Portland on the other hand is a real
sheeetthole!!
wood-cherry, white oak, rock maple...
you carve and file wood into small curve shapes to fit into the rim
side beteeen clincher fold and rim bottom then beat on it till it's
shapeless?
the hope was/is someone will spring forward with AN IDEA!
I had one. take the CR-18, place it between two slabs uh 1 inch
particle board covered with formica(used desks) and jump up and down
and the expletive deleted till it goes back into shape with some
precise bending in between a schoolbus bumper and rad surround.

Quoted message said:

ashland! one of the top ports in the us of a AND! one of the largest
piles of smoldering tree bark: Portland on the other hand is a real
sheeetthole!!
wood-cherry, white oak, rock maple...
you carve and file wood into small curve shapes to fit into the rim
side beteeen clincher fold and rim bottom then beat on it till it's
shapeless?
the hope was/is someone will spring forward with AN IDEA!
I had one. take the CR-18, place it between two slabs uh 1 inch
particle board covered with formica(used desks) and jump up and down
and the expletive deleted till it goes back into shape with some
precise bending in between a schoolbus bumper and rad surround.

Why, yes.

--
Tom Sherman - Earth (Illinois)