THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 197B
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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
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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. One TEES project deals
with underground gasification of lig
nite, eliminating the need for strip
mining, while CEMR studies focus
on other phases of lignite use, includ
ing environmental considerations in
strip mining.
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