Can anyone recommend a bearing press set.....

Lifeline is always a good cheap but not shit option. Amazon not so much.

I started a thread about this a while ago. Lots of good suggestions but I still didn't decide on anything. I've been a bit too distracted to mess around with bikes.

Linky

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bearing-press-set-or-let-the-bike-shop-do-it/#post-13026055

Bit of info here and details on a couple of recommendations.

Lifeline is always a good cheap but not shit option. Amazon not so much.

It's a threaded rod with two basic mandrels if you pay full price for a lifeline you have reached the upper limits of what's necessary.

After the lifeline it becomes nicer. Having said that, I have the bsc presses.

Depends how big you need.  I have a Park Tools headset press that has fitted two headsets in 10 years, paid for itself the Spring when it fitted polybushes into my Caravelle front wishbones

Probeariings tools are good for the money

aye its threaded rods but the bits are cnc to fit each bearing you need

Aye I didn't mean USE a bit of threaded rod.. I have a cyclos it's fine. It does the same job as all the others I have used.

Thanks for the info and links to the older threads about this. I’ve put an eBay bearing puller set and the Pro Bearing Tools press that were recommended onto my Christmas list. I have a set of bearings waiting and will get stuck in over the Christmas break.

What do you want to do with it?

If the ebay £40 one covers the bearing sizes you need it is excellent value for money for installing a range of bearings.

The eBay one I bought is decent, unless you are pressing in loads of bearings I am sure it will be fine.

Anyone know what these Chinese ones are like ?.  £40 thereabouts on Amazon/ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313735633451?hash=item490c19da2b:g:w3kAAOSw32Bgpnk1

I've been using a bit of threaded rod, some big washers and as I've a  lathe, been turning individual bushes to suit. Wouldn't mind a kit like the above, all numbered and kept together

I have one of those chinese sets, it's fine, does the job, is cheap enough to not feel too bad about buying I guess. The tools are perfectly fine, the case is brittle crap, and I reckon the organisation is probably what some buyers will want so that's a black mark. Then again toolcases across the board tend to be a bit crap. But I can't really remember why I bought it, if it were lost or stolen or something there's literally zero chance I'd buy another. I've forgotten I have it a couple of times and just used sockets, that's how indispensible it is.

Sockets, threaded rod, and hammers are 9/10ths as good and I have all that stuff. The only bearing tools worth owning IMO are the ones that do jobs you can't do with sockets- blind pullers, some car stuff, weird specifics. If you're spannering for money then time savings (and not looking like an amateur) can be worth it for sure but for me, nah, it was an impulse shiny-stuff buy that I shouldn't have made. Then again if I'd not got that I'd have probably got something else shinier and more expensive.

(yeah I know people say you can cause damage with sockets and hammers if you're incompetent or careless enough but that's true of absolutely everything, if you can hurt your bike with a hammer you can hurt it with a proper bearing press and there's definitely people who'll be more careless with the "proper tool")

I also have one of the Chinese sets from Ebay - paid a little over £30 and in contrast to northwind I'm really glad I bought it. I already had a homemade set from some cups that I turned out of steel/aluminium/whatever I could  get my hands on at the time, and I'd use sockets or washers or something if I needed a different size.... but the proper kit makes it so much easier to get something the right size, it's easier to get the bearings in square and the thread is a coarser pitch so it winds/unwinds a lot faster. It's also stored in a nice box so easier to find the right bits.

Did a great job on the Hunt rear hub and 161 frame bearings.

Wish I'd bought one years ago, and I think anything more expensive than this set will be past the point of diminishing returns.

The chinese jobbie is just superb. Really nice fit and lovely items. Absolute bargain.

That blue Chinese press set is fine for the money. All the bearing press bits for bearings as they should and it’s all nicely labelled / in the box. Can’t say I’ve particularly noticed the quality of the box - it just fits in a shelf in the garage until I need it.

With mine I somehow bent the threaded rod putting in main pivot bearings on my sentinel last time. So I’m using the blue drifts on a  bearingprotools.com headset press I had. <br /><br />

I find putting in bearings very satisfying.

I find putting in bearings very satisfying.

Not when they don't go in straight i don't 😀

I got one of the Chinese ones from Aliexpress £15 including postage, two weeks to get here. Not used it yet but it looks a bit of good kit for the money.

If the ebay £40 one covers the bearing sizes you need it is excellent value for money for installing a range of bearings.

I think this was the point I was trying to make.

Ellocwince is hard

Can anyone recommend a decent blind puller set that doesn't cost the earth? Ebay specials need not apply, I already have one of those and it's crap.