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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 197B Page 5 ou can fix it yourself in the MSC Bicycle repair shop now open By LINDA SULLIVAN Get your wheels in gear. A do-it- ourself bicycle repair shop in the 1 ■emorial Student Center (MSC) is fen now. ^Bhe repair shop is located next to lie Basement Coffeehouse at the f filth entrance of the MSC. Stu nts, faculty, staff and their spouses check out tools from the craft iop free of charge, with a current *as A&M identification card. The bike shop is open 7 a.m. to 10 m. Monday through Sunday, jile the craft shop hours are 10 m. to 10 p.m. Monday through ay, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, he shop was opened with the libined efforts of the MSC Craft hop and the A&M Wheelmen ib. Karen Zantow, manager of the t shop said the numerous re sts for the service prompted the ning of the shop. ™The idea had been in the back of ) [Jw mind for awhile,” she said, “and * Hh the help of MSC Director Wayne Stark and (former) Associate Director Hal Gaines, we started planning in fall ’77.” Money from the MSC facilities fund was used to construct a partition in the mechanical room to protect air conditioning machinery and to form a separate room for the repair shop. A bicycle stand, used for repairs made off of the ground, a work bench, a vise and a wheel-trueing stand for wheel alignments are the only permanent pieces of equipment in the bicycle shop. Other tools are stored in the craft shop. Todd Kratz, a senior economics major, is responsible for the variety of specialized tools available in the craft shop. Last year as president of the A&M Wheelmen Club, a recre ational and service organization for bicycle enthusiasts, Kratz was con sulted during the tool selection for the shop. Last fall’s campus police bicycle auction produced some of the money for the Wheelmen to pur chase tools. Kratz says the craft shop has “enough tools to do just about every thing that needs to be done to bikes. ” Craft shop employee Mike Hodgson says it required “much finagling and extra work” by Zantow and Kratz, but the MSC Bicycle Shop opened Jan. 19. Hodgson says the craft shop lends out certain tools for repair, but does not stock re placement supplies such as tires. A misconception about the shop has been that people can have some one else service their bicycles there. “Many think workers are on duty to maintain the bikes, but this is not so,” said Zantow. The MSC Bicycle Shop is for those with the skill and knowledge to make their own bicycle adjustments. As yet, there is no advisory help available in the craft shop concerning repairs, but some members of the Wheelmen plan to train craft shop workers on basic repair techniques for the students’ benefit, said secretary-treasurer Harlan Harris. Praising the new repair shop as ^ignite source of future energy edicts Texas A&M official bed! said (I “''■Industrialization along Texas' lig- h fite belt will rival the Ruhr Valley of lalnKtljririany within the next 25 years, b' •‘edicts Texas A&M University’s vice president for engineering non-renewable resources. P'red Benson, vice president, said the energy needs of a major |ment of industry will attract it to rich strip of lignite which is 30 to Iniles wide and runs from San An- io to Texarkana. “By the end of this century, so h of American industry will have ed to Texas that parts of the state be like Germany’s Ruhr Valley of midland area of England around ningham,” he said, he bulk of the Texas lignite — e 100 billion tons — is at depths 00 to 500 feet, too deep to be ed economically at the present , Benson said. About 10 billion is at depths in which strip min is economical, he added. “Most of the crumbly, soft coal OC Rs in fairly thin layers of less than E feet,” he said. “A 5- or 6-foot Bn is considered very good. Texas is particularly fortunate that je major lignite deposits are not in eas for farming, or in rocky areas, enson said. Also, the state does not ve serious problems with acidic He water as does strip mining in e North and East. The Texas A&M divisions which Benson heads include the Texas En gineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the Center for Energy and Mineral Resources (CEMR), both of which have major programs devoted to eff ective utilization of lig nite, among various energy-related AGGIES SAVE on the ORIGINAL 10% ORDER BY MAIL V Write or phone for more information FRAMAR INC. 2265 N. 11th St. Bmt. Tx. 77703 713 892-5793 Topsiders - Frye Boots - Also Available. definitely a good thing, Harris said elsewhere,” he said. “The general the available tools are extremely price around town to adjust derailers convenient and necessary for many an d brakes is about $20,” he says, repairs. “but with the new shop you can bor- “If this service was not available, row tools and do it for free in 30 you’d have to buy the tools minutes.” projects. 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