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Go-Kart Mozart
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ole Miss by damn!
Posts: 1,380
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The leather cup has been covered, well. If you can't referb yours they are less than $5 new.
Pressure in the hose and not the tube. When you loosen the nut on the presta valve always tap the valve to break the seal.
I never understood the love for the standard press on Silca chuck. Like the leather cup the rubber seal in the chuck can be bought for cheap. Silca actually used to make, I assume the still do, a nicer brass chuck with a throw lever that would stay on the valve. I swapped mine out decades ago.
FWIW I still have and use my first Silca pump I bought new in 1983. -J
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