[Closed] What tools do you keep meaning to buy?

This morning, oil filter wrench, as I once again removed an oil filter by hammering a screwdriver through it.

used to be a headset press but hardly ever change them these days
Bearing puller kit is on the list now, new workstand love to have a feedback one
after that just a big box from park or pedros

Star nut setter my DIY one doesn't work that well.

See, I have all of those mentioned above, strap wrench, feedback work stand, blind bearing pullers, headset press, sfn setter, but I've still not got any bloody seal pics! I pick more seals than I press headsets ffs. Why can't I just go and buy a set?

Circlip pliers every time I struggle on. Every time I wish I had bought them

I've had master link opening plyers for years, only just got around to buying a set to close them again.

And a hose cutter, £2 and loads easier.

My Teng picks get used all the time, order a set man!

Got seal picks.

Pillar drill needed hand drill doesn't cut it for the job at hand.

Steerer tube saw guide and a headset press. Oh and a decent ht2 bottom bracket tool.

Off topic but I finally bought a good quality 8mm Allen key, a park with a pretty handle.

I've normally just used a cheapish Allen key set, and they are slack and get rounded off and are too short to get decent leverage.

This is a revelation for me, stuck pedal? No problemo puta.

People at work thought I was insane when I told them I'd bought a single Allen key for about a tenner.

I now know better.

A full set of wera would have been better value 🙂

I bought a Dremel the other day, been meaning to for years finally got round to buying one.

Next thing I need to buy is a valve core remover.

A full set of wera would have been better value

Maybe, but it's the 8mm I always have problems with as that's what I use most, so didn't fancy a full set 🙂

I really want one of those RRP bearing tools, but at £70 plus £20 per bear size for the bits I wince too much at the price.

Circlip pliers +1

Derraileur alignment tool. Fixed more than a few dodgy shifting bikes using a ghetto method, a proper tool has been wanted for a while.

Digital shock pump, though I'm giving up full suss and those finickty rear shocks. Forks seem less needy.

Big fat track pump. I've a Joe Blow sport but I'd like one of those large barrel chaps with a decent range pressure gauge.

I've a Ritchey torqkey thing but its the old one with the fixed bit, I'd like one of the swappable ones.

A decent chain whip. The crappy Aldi one broke at the first whiff of a sticky ring (pffft!) about a year ago and I've been soldiering on bravely since then. I bought a proper one a few days ago because a bike I bought had a very stuck lock ring and it was a revelation. Proper stuff in working properly shocker, who have thunk... 🙄

I have most of the stuff mentioned but I need a slide hammer bearing extractor. I'll probably get the unior one. Derailleur alignment tool is on the list too.

Bolt croppers. For fitting mudguards, and cutting down the stays. Takes ages with a hacksaw.

Also got digital calipers today, £10 from Lidl. Has been a few times when I wanted to check the size of seatposts or bolts etc.

Some posh hex wrenches

Rear brake caliper piston wind back tool.

a torque wrench

Wheel truing stand (and that book everyone says to get).

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I've had master link opening plyers for years, only just got around to buying a set to close them again.

Park tools had the brilliant idea of making their plyers both open and close links! (unlike KMC) 😀

Total tool porn
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Disc truing tool.

This morning, oil filter wrench, as I once again removed an oil filter by hammering a screwdriver through it.

+1

Got most things, what I really want is a big box of consumables, lots of bolts, washers, nuts, circlips, bits like that.

I have most of the above but what I really want is a decent chop saw.

I've been humming and hawing about a gasfluxer for ages. Never quite get as far as ordering one.

Cable cutters. I keep forgetting when I'm out and about.

Seal picks ?

Don't most people just use a baseball bat ?

gasfluxer

But can you generate the 1.21 gigawatts it requires?

That's a bit of a personal question.

Cable cutters. I keep forgetting when I'm out and about

I splashed out on a set of Park Tool cable cutters and was amazed that they could cut through cable and outer together like butter. Couldn't believe I had 'managed' using the cutters on pliers all these years!

I tend to buy all sorts of niche tools for whatever job needs done, but I really could do with a set of decent screwdrivers. At the moment it’s normally a struggle with a multi tool while knowing that better options exist...

Re Screwdrivers I had some Park ones which were poor, but have since bought a Wera set which are excellent by comparison and a JIS screwdriver by Vessel which properly fits Shimano gear adjustment screws.

Sorry but those T handled facom keys and any other of that type just don't cut it day to day, I've lost count of the times the bearing or Spring pops out and disappears under the bench.
For me PB Swiss every time, long arm ball end, although I do like the Wiha set with the ring built into the ball end which holds the cap head socket on the end of key.

Derraileur alignment tool.

This was first to my mind, although I might be shit at great adjustment I think I'm actually really good at just slightly bending mech hangers.

Im always meaning to buy a bigger tool box.

Vernier calipers and torque wrench for bikey things. Got a big torque wrench but range doesn't go down low enough. Always been a case of "that'll do"

I would like a really good strap wrench. Any recommendations?

I have a better tool kit than I thought!

Due to a penchant for running stupidly low tyre pressures, now more or less cured, I have just acquired a copy of the Morningstar Rim Rench for sorting out some rear wheels.

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I need to buy a crank extractor to get some stupid Race Face cranks off my bike so I can put Shimanos on. I'll only use the bastard thing once!

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