[David9694]

Show us your favourite tool. I’ll start, with my collection of tyre levers. 

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[David9694]

Bottom bracket facing and

Bottom bracket facing and thread cleaning set.

Do you face a new steel frame before or after painting?  before = risk of it being uneven again, after = risk of a rust spot. 

[David9694]

Here we have a star nut

Here we have a star nut setter, headset cup remover (1″)  and the ubiquitous hammer (Park Tools one £33).

[David9694]

Your’re not seeing my peg

Your’re not seeing my peg board – my work area is a tip, that’s why I’ve got two of so many things! Very jealous of the neat, spacious setups I see on Facebook.

[mark1a]

ktache wrote:

Though the better than most bike shop mechanics peg board that featured on something a few weeks back was really magnificent.

Ahem, yes. We all need a hobby don’t we? Thank you!

[ktache]

Not only does David9694 prove

Not only does David9694 prove once again he can come up with a fine forum topic and show that the forum is far from dead, but he has a cracking selection of tools.

Though the better than most bike shop mechanics peg board that featured on something a few weeks back was really magnificent.

[mark1a]

I like the way that, in the

I like the way that, in the space of around 48 hours, this thread has gone from a couple of tyre levers, to full-on bearing reaming & setting kit. I’m expecting by Thursday somebody to post a frame jig and brazing torch, bought “just in case”

[ktache]

When I got a set of Mavic

When I got a set of Mavic crossmax to do a winter so I didn’t destroy my last set of xc717s, (had to bring the Getting to Work bike out of retirement whilst waiting on a warranty replacement in the world wide bike COVID boom) I brought them in full knowledge that if anything went wrong then that was it, very little replaceable and/serviceable. Lasted the 4 months that I needed. They were nice enough wheels while they lasted.

[hawkinspeter]

IanMSpencer wrote:

But it is very satisfying spinning the handles to get it to tighten up.

Most definitely. Very smooth action and with the mass of the handles, angular momentum wins over the friction.

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

And it’s definitely not the gun that Cyril Cusack makes for Edward Fox in Day of the Jackal? 

Possibly, though it could probably benefit from not being solid if you wanted to get a bullet through it. More useful as some kind of club, I’d guess.

[IanMSpencer]

But it is very satisfying

But it is very satisfying spinning the handles to get it to tighten up.

[David9694]

And it’s definitely not the

And it’s definitely not the gun that Cyril Cusack makes for Edward Fox in Day of the Jackal? 

[David9694]

One of my early builds, a

One of my early builds, a Planet X Viner just would not settle down in the headset dept. The inside of the steerer was non-standard, a star just passes through it, and then if was either too stiff, or there was play.

Enter this beast, the head tube ends reamer and 1″ and 1 1/8″ ream.  

I also got one of these for seatpost reaming.  Getting past the the extent of my technical knowledge, ovalisation, etc but when you’re having seatpost trouble (in 0.2mm increments) a bit of vernier-guided action from this can help and you’re less inclined to get scratches and gouges on your seatpost too.  

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274744838778

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

Are you sure that’s not another headset press? It looks enormous.

if it really is a b/b press then my comment was going to be “unlike the clunk you get pedalling”?

Mine wouldn’t cope with a head tube you might get at over 24″ size. 

It’s a Park Tool HHP-2 headset and bottom bracket press https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/bearing-cup-press-hhp-2

And yes, it’s fairly enormous.

[David9694]

Are you sure that’s not

Are you sure that’s not another headset press? It looks enormous.

if it really is a b/b press then my comment was going to be “unlike the clunk you get pedalling”?

Mine wouldn’t cope with a head tube you might get at over 24″ size. 

[brooksby]

Something like that is the

Something like that is the sort of thing I’d probably buy just so I could say I owned one…

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