On 12/11/2018 7:54 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 7:39:38 PM UTC-5, Gregory Sutter wrote:
On 2018-12-07, Sir Ridesalot wrote:

The HP was fantastic too. I had one that I salvaged after it was
run over by a car. I drove a dowel the same diameter as the bore of
the pump down the inside of the pump and then reinstalled the pump
handle (after removing the dowel of course) and that pump worked
for many years after.

I'm surprised that method worked! Neat.

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Yeah it worked. All I had to do was chamfer one end of the dowel before inserting it into the pump body. Then it was a simple matter of tapping the dowel down the pump body a bit, pull the dowel back until loose again and repeat until the entire pump body was restored. I took that pump back to the bike shop where they had given it to me after the customer left it there. I showed them the pump and demonstrated that it worked. they said it's be a great ad for Zefal HP pumps. I still have a Zefal HP that I salvaged from another accident.

The only disadvantage, in a way, with Zefal HP pumps was the need for an umbrella clip to hold one end of it.

Cheers


The later Zéfal nylon peg is very nice and doesn't rust.


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