[Tigers] valve extractor for tool kit

[Tom Hall]

On 1/3/2019 8:06 AM, Tom Witt via Tigers wrote:
> You must be talking about this: 
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sunbeam-Tiger-Alpine-Plastic-Valve-Stem-Extractor-for-tool-kit/332984724770?hash=item4d876fad22:g:r9wAAOSwFSxZ~Mb5:rk:1:pf:0 
> as an item of the exact name is on Ebay now.
> The term itself seems confounding. I can only think of two types of 
> valves in a Tiger. The 16 valves in the engine and the heater control 
> valve. Given the engine valve stem and head are one you would not be 
> “extracting” one from the other and surely not with plastic.  I’ve 
> never had the heater valve apart but from its appearance this device 
> seems to have little or no purpose.  Could it be that the word “valve” 
> has an expanded British meaning?  I know they often call vacuum tubes 
> “valves.”  Frankly it looks like a shaft for a radio knob..., or a 
> tool for adjusting old style potentiometers , capacitors etc..
>
I'm dumbfounded.  Have none of you ever heard of a Schrader valve?  It's 
what holds the air in your tires!

-- 
Tom Hall
ModTiger Engineering LLC
5712 San Luis Court
Pleasanton, CA 94566
modtiger at comcast.net
(925)462-3876
www.tigerengineering.net

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