Using good tools

[huskerdont]

Latest tool-related discovery is that Park makes a tray for its PCS-10 (etc) repair stand:

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It makes me unreasonably happy to have this. Maybe I need to think about N+1 = 7.

[ian74]

What are your hourly rates? With the sweet kegerator in the background I just want to come over, drink beers and use your tools so I don’t have to go buy them.

[huskerdont]

An idea should a certain political party succeed in making me unemployed.

Step 1: Rent out tools and sell beer.
Step 3: Make money.

[Judd]

@huskerdont 151512 wrote:

An idea should a certain political party succeed in making me unemployed.

Step 1: Rent out tools and sell beer.
Step 3: Make money.

I’m in for beer. Do I get a discount for using Husker bucks?

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[anomad]

There might be a number of us in that boat. I don’t have a kegerator but I have a drum roaster for coffee!

I’ve been working on and building my own bikes since I started riding. Always had a cobbled together toolkit in an old tackle box. This year I bought a relatively cheap performance brand toolkit where all the tools have fitted pockets. Best 40 bucks I’ve spent in a while. Its so nice to have it all right there handy.

@huskerdont 151512 wrote:

An idea should a certain political party succeed in making me unemployed.

Step 1: Rent out tools and sell beer.
Step 3: Make money.

[huskerdont]

@anomad 151536 wrote:

There might be a number of us in that boat. I don’t have a kegerator but I have a drum roaster for coffee!

I’ve been working on and building my own bikes since I started riding. Always had a cobbled together toolkit in an old tackle box. This year I bought a relatively cheap performance brand toolkit where all the tools have fitted pockets. Best 40 bucks I’ve spent in a while. Its so nice to have it all right there handy.

Last V-day, the girl gave me *two* toolboxes. A large one for regular tools, and a small one for bike tools. Such a romantic! I’m still a sucky mechanic, but I know where my tools are.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@huskerdont 151544 wrote:

Last V-day, the girl gave me *two* toolboxes. A large one for regular tools, and a small one for bike tools. Such a romantic! I’m still a sucky mechanic, but I know where my tools are.

Sizes are backward.

[mstone]

@ShawnoftheDread 151545 wrote:

Sizes are backward.

no, bike tools are mostly pretty small

[Vicegrip]

@mstone 151551 wrote:

no, bike tools are mostly pretty small

Did someone say “Proper tools?”

True, most bike tools are small but there are so many to own and some are sizable such as a wheel dish checker, truing stand or head set press. I have been a hired bolt buster for 40 years and I still don’t have a 40 inch breaker bar. Besides I have shown more than a few times that my 18″ breaker can cause more than enough unintended damage in the right hands.:rolleyes: And no, my 48 inch 600 ft/lb torque wrench is not to be used as a breaker bar regardless of what someone who borrowed it thought. 😡

The proper number of bike tool boxes is T+1 with 2 being the minimum. A large box for the many infrequent use but satisfying in your hand “the right tool” when needed bike tools snuggled in and around all the odd bits of bike part and a small* somewhat portable one for the 10 tools you use 99% of the time. Along with the small box the stand should at a min be self populated with a flat, a Phillips and a couple of Park AWS Y hex wrenches.

*Sized just long enough to fit a Park PW-4 pedal wrench along with the rest of the work burnished must haves.

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