Sunday's Show and Tell...12/25/16....Merry Christmas

[Evans200]

This is my 5 year old grandson Frankie on his first bike that I bought him for Christmas. As he gets older, I'll introduce him to vintage bikes, but this was a good start as you can see by his expression.

 

[fboggs1986]

Merry Christmas Everyone! Wife got me a new work stand and a nice pinstripe tool!

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[Freqman1]

Merry Christmas Everyone! Wife got me a new work stand and a nice pinstripe tool!

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Let me know how that striper works. V/r Shawn

 

[fboggs1986]

Let me know how that striper works. V/r Shawn

Will do! It got some good reviews. I will be testing it out in a couple days.

Frank


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[rustystone2112]

Will do! It got some good reviews. I will be testing it out in a couple days.

Frank


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when i got my BEUGLER striper it was at the Pomona swap meet and guy selling them had his 8 year old daughter using it on a paper artist's pad basically just showing how easy and accurate it is to use and i was sold

 

[TR6SC]

My father gave me this, his British Standard Whitworth bike wrench he bought when he was 8 years old, so in 1941. He grew up in England, and says this one wrench fit almost all the nuts on his bike. It must have been in his suitcase when he emigrated in 1958. The Whitworth size goes back to 1841 and was the first standardization of nuts and threads. Maybe I'll have to buy a British bike to go with It? Anyway, here it is:
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Hey Brian, Get yourself a British bike, you'll love it. Only your spanners will fit it. BSW, BSF, CEI. All different threads that use a wrench based not on the head size, but on the shaft size. Sir Whitworth felt the proper torque on the wrench would transfer best by having the length of the flat match the diameter of the bolt's shaft. BSW is the coarse thread. BSF is fine and since less torque is needed, they upped the size of the shaft by 1/16 that the wrench/head would drive. Hence your 5/16 W (coarse thread) wrench also drives a 3/8 BS (fine thread). That's the reason the wrenches are double sized.
But, many, or most bike threads are CEI (cycle engineers institute). These are not the usual 55 degree thread root angles found on W and BS. They are 60 degree roots like the American threads, but the pitch (threads per inch) doesn't vary with bolt size as is the norm. Most CEI threads are 26tpi. "Cycle Threads" the Brits call them. Being English, they also use the same head as the W and BS nuts and bolts.
Believe it or not, the fun of working on the bikes is increased with these "Special Spanners!"

 

[markivpedalpusher]

Nice,Great place to keep the small stuff.Is that a Marx wind up train?

The train is an electric Lionel

 

[kngtmat]

Nice stuff.

No bike stuff but plenty of DVD's & Blu-Ray's and my December Marvel Collector Corps box X-Men themed.

Monk complete series DVD. The Sentinel complete series. Relic Hunter complete series. The Librarian 3 films DVD's. Grim season 5 DVD. Agents Of Shield Quake Funko Pop. Agents Of Shield season 2 Blu-Ray. Agent Carter season 1 BD. Captain America Civil War 3D BD. Ghost Rider first BD & part 2 3D BD. Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D BD. The last is Ash Vs. Evil Dead season 1 BD.

 

[morton]

I received this original Blue Phantom light cover in the mail (thanks Ty).

I purchased this early 1986 Serotta made 7-eleven racing team bike.

very nice!

 

[nycet3]

Posted these already, but here they are again. Possibly my two favorite non-bike finds I've ever had.