On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:15:02 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

I suspect you can't afford the very best, but you can borrow the list
of tools and buy the equivalent tools online or at your local hardware
store as you need them.

Normally this is very sound advice. But in the case of owning a
Huffy, the first and much more important priority is to locate and
acquire a real bike that was designed and constructed to be ridden.
The Huffy already performed the only job it was ever intended to do
when the initial purchaser paid money for it. After that, it's best
for it to be recycled immediately into something possibly useful.

That's also very sound advice for most situations, but not this
situation. The owner will soon be using the Huffy to possibly learn
bicycle mechanics. Whether it's worth the time or money is not really
relevant. Such experience can best be gained on a low cost, low
quality, low risk, and low performance bicycle. Learn by
Destroying(tm) using an expensive bicycle can lead to expensive
mistakes. If done properly, the experience of repairing the Huffy
will demonstrate to the owner the difference between a department
store bicycle and a better quality bicycle.

Incidentally, most of my various bicycles got their start when I
fished them out of a dumpster or were abandoned after being stripped
of all possible components. I learned quite a bit putting them back
in working order using a mixture of junk and new components.
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/
This one was just a frame and stem when I started.
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/Gary-Fisher-Tassajara.JPG
I'm undecided if it's better to learn by repairing or building a
bicycle. Eventually, everyone does both.

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Jeff Liebermann
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558