Best Tools I Ever Bought

[markoc]

Certainly the tool that brings the most instant joy when I have cause to use it.
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The Park RT-1 that is (couldnt get a good pic). Never used a Soyuz, I can imagine the buzz from that is quite a bit larger.

Both capable of propelling a headset cup at speed though

 

[Mohawk]

Certainly the tool that brings the most instant joy when I have cause to use it.
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The Park RT-1 that is (couldnt get a good pic). Never used a Soyuz, I can imagine the buzz from that is quite a bit larger.

Haha, the similarities are spot on

 

[Canuk]

Soma three way tool

 

[Mohawk]

Soma three way tool

Nice!

 

[Glug]

My favourite ever cheater bar: 4 foot of scaffolding pole.
Acquired by asking the builders next door - free.

Works well with a Park Tool SR-2.3 chain whip for disassembling SunTour New Winner freewheels



Also works for removing fixed cups, in fact it hasn't failed yet.

 

[Canuk]

My favourite ever cheater bar: 4 foot of scaffolding pole.
Acquired by asking the builders next door - free.

Works well with a Park Tool SR-2.3 chain whip for disassembling SunTour New Winner freewheels

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Also works for removing fixed cups, in fact it hasn't failed yet.

That's a pukka cheater bar

 

[bikeworkshop]

Couldn't find both the campag ones, but these are just as nice.
They don't work solo

 

[bulgie]

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Couldn't find both the campag ones, but these are just as nice.
They don't work solo

Isn't the hub width adjustable on those, with the part inside the frame two-piece, threaded? If I'm right then those are better than Campy "H" tools, or faster to use on different widths anyway.

I got extra spacers for my H tools, when some Campy distributor was blowing out old inventory, so they match, which is super important!
I do a lot of tandems (or did, before retirement, occasionally since). With the extra spacers I can check even up to a Santana, whatever their crazy rear hub took. I forget, 160 mm maybe? At some point if you keep adding spacers, you don't have enough threads engaged inside the tool, so someone made these extenders that go inside the bell-mouth, held in with O-rings.



But I can't just leave those extra spacers installed on the tool, flipping them to the right or left of the dropout to adjust the width how God (or Tullio) intended, because with all the spacers on, they don't fit in the wooden Campy Toolbox. I don't have any wall space available for a tool wall, so the <C> tools have to stay in thier box, which lives under the workbench, slides out on drawer glides. So to do a tandem I have to unthread each one all the way, add spacers, then reverse the process to put it away. Good thing I'm not in a hurry...