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Is there a tester approved chain whip? What's a good one for not loads of money?
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Is there a tester approved chain whip?
Park SR2, can't help with cheap as the best price is £29.99, plus you have to change the chain (which is easy as it's bolted together, not riveted) to use it with ⅛" sprockets, but the long and comfortable handle is worth the price compared with cheap ones stamped from sheet.
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Cheers!
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You can get one that isn't stamped for much cheaper than the parks one... Buggered if I can find a link for it, but I've got a combined chainwip/lockring tool, that's plenty beefy and cost me about £15. Get two and have one 1/8th and the other 3/32 for the same price as the parks one.
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Buggered if I can find a link for it
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My road build continues.
I have bought a set of shimano 600 sti shifters that came with the groupset, the right shifter is very notchy and it requires a fair amount of effort to push to the left , passing a kind of "catch".
Is there any remedy fix for this notchy right sti?
many thanks once again -
Douse liberally in GT85, if that doesn't work smash with hammer, applies to all other repair jobs too.
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Not much good for most track sprockets though.
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B'Twin 500 chain tool.
Why would you want to hold your cassette by 3 teeth on the smallest sprocket when a chain whip can hold all the teeth on the biggest sprocket? Torque is the same (whatever is needed to loosen the lock ring), so holding on the larger radius reduces the tangential force, and spreads it over more teeth.
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Less likely to slip innit.
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After digging through my tools, it's a shimano:
http://www.rakuten.co.uk/shop/taylorwheels/product/16161909/?sku=16161909&sclid=a_pla_uk&$$ja=cgid:20170741716%7Ctsid:71873%7Ccid:271496316%7Clid:41477300408%7Cnw:g%7Ccrid:62637775116%7Crnd:16609606290572991152%7Cdvc:m%7Cadp:1o3%7Cbku:1That's the 21, I've got the TL-SR. 22 which is the 1/8th version... There's also a 23 which from a bit of googling has added magnets to hold the chain in place when using the lockring tool.
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Velosolo one looks nicer and cheaper, TL-SR21/22/23 is even more expensive than the Park one.
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I don't like the join on the velocio one, I've used the shimano one as a hammer when i've not had one to hand... Rock solid.
And only a couple of quid difference if you search about.
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I don't like the join on the velocio one
There's a join in the Park one too, it's just hidden under the coating on the handle; we've been trusting our lives to spot welds on cars for a long time now, I think I can live with a couple on a wrench.
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By the same logic we've been trusting our lives to things stamped out of sheet metal, so might as well get a £5 one? ;)
Meh, i remember when "tester approved" meant something! You're slipping man.
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By the same logic we've been trusting our lives to things stamped out of sheet metal
That's not the same logic. Stamping is a sound process, spot welding is a sound process, seam-welding tube is a sound process. It's only by combining all of the processes in one sound design that we arrive at a tester approved chain whip. You could build the Park shape in a seamless way and if it had the same ergonomics it would still get my approval, it would just be even more expensive. I can think of at least half a dozen ways to make a chain whip with the same ergonomics and functionality, so the best solution will be the cheapest and I think Park have probably got pretty close to it.
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