http://www.pinkbike.com/news/abbey-top-cap-sockets-review-2016.html
$150 bucks for 5 aluminum sockets.
No thanks Jeff.
Sockets for dentists
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http://www.pinkbike.com/news/abbey-top-cap-sockets-review-2016.html
$150 bucks for 5 aluminum sockets.
No thanks Jeff.
Stupid. Any machine shop will turn down some sockets for some beer. And it's not even complete. Needs 22mm, 25mm, 27mm, and probably a few others to be considered complete.
I turn them down with my angle grinder for ONE beer just fyi.
I have been known to turn down sockets by using a hex drive adapter into a drill, clamping the drill in my vice facing upwards, and spinning super high RPM against various files, or at one point, an angle grinder while holding the drill on with a zip tie.....TOTALLY legit.
Files take too long.
Angle grinders make lots of noise and sparks.
No contest.
Angle grinders make lots of noise and sparks.
No contest.
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b.) you said sprockets, right?
*and if you don't think the turn down for what vid is among the best ever, we cannot rescue you from the clutches of the lizard people.
*and if you don't think the turn down for what vid is among the best ever, we cannot rescue you from the clutches of the lizard people.
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Abby, for when Snap On just osnt expensive enough...
For half a beer I'll tell you to go buy 3/8 drive 12pt sockets at Sears, they're generally thin enough wall for forks.
For half a beer I'll tell you to go buy 3/8 drive 12pt sockets at Sears, they're generally thin enough wall for forks.
It's not about being thin enough wall, it's about getting rid of the taper at the bottom of the socket for the super shallow aluminum heads that are typically on the top caps of forks. Most of them are mushroomed over on all 6 corners.
I use the Park HCW-15 for topcaps (Fox 36/40/RC4 piggy, HCW-7 for Charger), they're laser cut steel and super tightly toleranced so they don't damage parts. The ground down sockets are great too, but I find the spanner even less marring for initially breaking them free:
http://www.parktool.com/product/headset-wrench-HCW-15
There's also these which are cheap and a full hex:
http://www.lunarbikes.com/tools.htm
http://www.parktool.com/product/headset-wrench-HCW-15
There's also these which are cheap and a full hex:
http://www.lunarbikes.com/tools.htm
On top of that, is it just me or is 3/8" drive the size no one usually has?
Suhweet. Have you shipped yet? Wanna make sure you have the right address lol.
An angle grinder is hands down the best power tool I have ever bought. A drill may be more useful but if you straight up just want to fuck some shit up, angle grinder.
If you want to turn a street sign into a machete for chopping off the heads of zombies, or Trump supporters, angle grinder
If you want to ignite some oily rags stuffed in the corner of your work bench, angle grinder.
If you want a thousand tiny needles lodged in your face and torso, you can go to a accupuncturist, or chuck up a wire wheel in an angle grinder.
Pipe wrench.
Cloaca wrench
also, will this make me a dentist?
My brother-in-law call the angle grinder "the tool who will forge the future". He's known for opening beer bottles using one.
if i really cared about my top caps, i would buy a cheap set and fly cut the tops so the radius does destroy the corners.
iv been using a very solid adjustable wrench for rebuilding my fork
lol @ $150....seriously?
iv been using a very solid adjustable wrench for rebuilding my fork
lol @ $150....seriously?
I have their hammer. Just the old one, not the limited edition ti carbon one. 
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I have a full set of the lunar wrenches @Udi mentioned. They are great and work precisely as you would want them to. I mangled a fox cap with an adjustable wrench before I decided to buy the right tools. These are the right tools, and pretty cheap. I have one for my 40, my 36, my pike I sold and my 32 I sold. Oops.
Weird i didnt have any problems with the sockets i have. Also i fucking hate angle grinders, i havent even had a grinding disk on any of my three or four for years. I only use them for flap disks to grind welds/shaping and cup wire wheels. Well ok the cordless with a grinder disk is the fastest, easiest way to go through a pad lock. It is the most cussed at tool in my tool arsenal.
A google search for some whimsical angle grinder images accidentally returned some gruesome angle grinder accident images. Wear your PPE when unleashing the awesomeness.
and do not wear baggy clothing! one of my classmates during welding college got his baggy t-shirt wrapped in a wirewheel in his dewalt angle grinder, spun his tshirt tight and pulled into his stomach.. took ALOT of layers of skin off, but nothing brutal
now if that was a cutting wheel.......
anyways; fuck those sockets
now if that was a cutting wheel.......
anyways; fuck those sockets
I like the Lunar Bikes wrenches and will have to try them.
I hate cutting or grinding sockets because it removes plating and the sockets go to hell faster.
I hate cutting or grinding sockets because it removes plating and the sockets go to hell faster.
Wait, wait, wait....WAIT A GOD DAMNED MINUTE!!!
When do dentists actually work on their own bikes??
When do dentists actually work on their own bikes??
Buying tools =/= working on something.Wait, wait, wait....WAIT A GOD DAMNED MINUTE!!!
When do dentists actually work on their own bikes??
Yep, another vote for the Lunar wrench. I purchased one a few years ago have no regrets. It works perfectly and for $9 it is very reasonable.
Good point, although my understanding is that when said dentists bring their $10K crabon chariot in for "aesthetic bike surgery", they also bring fancy tools which are to be used in lieu of the common (i.e. filthy) LBS peasant tools. Basically, they have diaper bags for the bikes which include UV protection blanket, $150 socket set, grease made from black rhino horn resin, bottle of Fiji water (for hand washing), etc...Wait, wait, wait....WAIT A GOD DAMNED MINUTE!!!
When do dentists actually work on their own bikes??
Which, now that I think about it, I wonder if we could start a "Bike Sitting" company that will go exercise your precious plastic pedal poodle when you're traipsing around Bali? I nominate Nathan Rennie and Chris Kovarik for lead "exercisers".
Perhaps, but I have to assume this is not the trend in the UK.
I had the same happen to me my first summer after high school, using a big ass angle grinder to remove concrete off the edges of forms for basements. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week all summer long.....t-shirt caught in said wire wheel, no skin removal, but a cracked rib when that sucker came tight and slammed into my ribs.
Used to get pieces of wire that would stick into my legs/gut all the time, good times.
If it's not a 9" grinder with the safety guard taken off then you're just playing really. Those things have maimed so many people they're actually banned from a lot of work sites around here. Realistically though a 4 or 5" grinder with 1mm or 0.6mm cut-off wheel is a pretty awesome tool for a lot of fine work.
Why would you want aluminium sockets btw? Surely steel would last better and be less prone to deformation etc? I've used the lathe to part off the end of several sockets for use on fork top caps with great success. It gives a much more square result than a grinder will.
Why would you want aluminium sockets btw? Surely steel would last better and be less prone to deformation etc? I've used the lathe to part off the end of several sockets for use on fork top caps with great success. It gives a much more square result than a grinder will.
Which is better, rounding the $200 dentist socket, or a top cap?