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Evening all,
I've recently acquired a Manitou Magnum fork and want to open it up for service and travel change. Has anyone made their own tools? Or found cheap alternatives? £40-50 seems a little steep for two sockets and a cassette tool.
Thanks
Chris
When I had a Mattoc I turned down an 8mm Socket to work in a lathe, but you could do that in a drill press or a hand drill with emery cloth. I don't remember about the other socket.
The cassette tool I recall people would cut out a section.
Thanks very much. They don’t look too hard to fashion, just curious what peoples experience was….or whether anyone had some knocking about they didn’t need!
There was a thread on mtbr with guidance and photos of the tools people had made themselves.
If its just lower service no tools needed.... You can use a 4mm Allen key in the air valve to undo it (as opposed to thin wall socket)
For the other socket just turned one down with a lathe at work and filed down an old cassette tool. Might still have them in the shed! I will post back on here if I find them when I get the bike out later!
I did the cassette tool cut down for the travel adjust on a Mattoc… if fit fine but the bugger was so tight it started to strip, so I left the travel alone.
I just bought the tools. Can't machine anything while the 4mm allen key can damage the valve IIRC
The park cassette tool fit over the bottom footnut to get to the air shaft when I had my mattocs.
Think it was the 5c version. Looks much like the new 5.2.