tools! i love tools!

[jonnyboy666]

I love tools, always have, having the right tool for the job is very important to me as i hate bodging repairs, a good example is when people bash headset cups into frames etc with lumps of wood etc. :roll:

but since leaving the bike trade a few years ago i found myself without tools that i took for granted.

so i have been gradually building my own toolkit back up with all the specific stuff relevant to my component choices. i always had the basics but it was the specific stuff i lacked

todays present to myself and used for the first time today was some Hope hub tools, they just make the job easy

 

[REKIBorter]

I appreciate a good bodge but nothing replaces the right tool for the job. Just a few more to get to complete my collection. All I need now is a proper workshop.

 

[Lysander]

Aye, ye cannae beat them- headset press for cups.....bottom bracket tool for cranksets......mallet for Piers Morgan's face....

 

[Raging_Bulls]

......mallet for Piers Morgan's face....

That would be a bodge job. I'm not even sure if the proper tools for that job can legally be oned by civilians.

 

[jonnyboy666]

one tool that i haven't got at the moment is a crown race seating tool, it's not something that i need to use very often but as i have a headset press it makes sense to have a crown tool, but to be honest i sort of don't want to buy one as i think they are expensive for basically a metal tube (basic ones anyway).

so my solution comes by way of Drystonepaul's nightmare!

at mayhem DSP brought with him a frame, a Claude Butler, i think it's safe to say he hated the frame, pig iron heavy, not particularly pretty, basically no redeeming features! it was available for karma to anyone who'd have it.

No one wanted it . . . people avoided it like a leper!

at this point i was unaware of the existence of the frame until everyone had gone, i saw the frame languishing in the middle of where the camp was. i thought to my self "oh, someone forgot their frame" so i decided to chuck it in the van and find out who it belonged to.

a while goes by and i somehow find out it was Pauls frame, so i decided to take it to the Scottish meet where i went to hand it back to Paul and the look on his face could only be described as shocked disappointment!

he said he deliberately left it at mayhem and never expected to see it again!!

so being a stingy type i have made it into a crown race tool, all be it a temporary one, basically a slide hammer to be used in conjunction with an old headset cup to protect the new crown race.


so this next picture will please him

 

[BerthaPog]

Any chance you could knock one up for me out of the downtube assuming the size is about right? I too lack a crown race setting tool, but don't have a spare frame to mangle.

Something quote poetic about making a bike building tool out of an unloved frame.

 

[jonnyboy666]

ok, i'll check the diameter then if it's ok i'll cut it up then drop it to you at the Leith hill meet.

this poor beastie gets more attention in it's demise than it got when in one piece!

 

[gbsimpsa]

Poor frame!

You could also make a truing jig out of the rear stays perhaps?

 

[jonnyboy666]

actually that's not a bad idea! i only have a basic raleigh one (truing jig that is) and it wobbles!!


good thinking batman!!

 

[makster]

so my solution comes by way of Drystonepaul's nightmare!

at mayhem DSP brought with him a frame, a Claude Butler, i think it's safe to say he hated the frame, pig iron heavy, not particularly pretty, basically no redeeming features! it was available for karma to anyone who'd have it.

No one wanted it . . . people avoided it like a leper!

at this point i was unaware of the existence of the frame until everyone had gone, i saw the frame languishing in the middle of where the camp was. i thought to my self "oh, someone forgot their frame" so i decided to chuck it in the van and find out who it belonged to.

a while goes by and i somehow find out it was Pauls frame, so i decided to take it to the Scottish meet where i went to hand it back to Paul and the look on his face could only be described as shocked disappointment!

Brilliant!! That frame must have covered more mile while unwanted than it ever did being ridden.
My retrobike story of the year so far