Tool porn

Silca toolkit

This is very good, and surprisingly inexpensive. Well worth carrying.

I raise you

and finally, my new favourite tool. It's fucking brilliant.

As for pliers I found these just great.

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I just wish it had a chain splitter then it would be perfect.

Can I ask which Silca toolkit is this? I don’t know what a chain splitter is so if I had this I would probably feel it was perfect and that I was prepared for anything?!

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I do like the grip on those pliers. Never felt like I needed screw pliers like that but the grip makes me want it!!

Also, I really like the green tinted nepros screwdrivers.

Can I ask which Silca toolkit is this? I don’t know what a chain splitter is so if I had this I would probably feel it was perfect and that I was prepared for anything?!

I have this one which includes a torque wrench, but you can get the set without that specific tool for half the price.

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The Park valve tool, chain holder and long T25 I have added as they're extremely handy things to have (the long T25 is to get to disc brake calliper bolts and is specific to my full suspension bike, the seat stays of which make access to the calliper bolts challenging (read: impossible) with a shorter bit.

Solid shout!

Used them today. I can confirm they're life changing. The grip is great, but they way they hold onto bolts is...something else.

Thanks for the reply that looks a good toolkit.

Bit late to the party but all this talk of adjustable wrenches. Had to get a couple of my own.

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I'll need a new adjustable soon

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Got some NOS 600 pedals a few years ago, bearings needed adjustment. Chromed hex was only 2mm wide and tight as hell. Couldn't imagine cracking the locknuts without scarring them, except I had this bad boy.

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Need to do some plumbing, bought an expensive tool

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Hate when that happens

Just finished reading through the thread, noticed somebody linked the locking spanner on eBay a month ago. It was mentioned they make cassette tools way less fiddly, basically making the poofight on the right functionally identical to the sweetness on the left.

My cassette tool is a Lezyne thing that's a combo with a BB cup tool, think I've got another similar thing that's a combo of a couple of other tools, and the locking shifter (that's what us colonial types call an adjustable wrench) is a game changer; turns two separate tools into one.

Where has this bastard lovechild of a shifter and vise grip been all my life? And why is there only one brand and size?

Assimilating other tools like the Borg is just its everyday trick, but once in a while, being a vise grip with parallel jaws is just gob-smackingly awesome.

Tool anti porn. Making do during lockdown

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Needed a bit of 10mm dowel, in case anyone's interested

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A drill in vice makes a lathe. Stolen that idea.
Oh, and hacks and bodges thread >>>>>

Where has this bastard lovechild of a shifter and vise grip been all my life? And why is there only one brand and size?

The Knipex pliers wrench locks by the way it works

Oh yeah, I've seen those, damn flash, and spendy. Life's too short to go without nice tools though - just ordered a 150mm pair.