Bike tools

The hackspace currently has a set of bicycle tools on loan from --Davidhayward. They're located in the members room, and secured with a combination lock. Ask David for the combination if you'd like to use them.

The bike tools are also marked with blue tape, please don't disperse them throughout the hackspace, and please put the toolbox back on the racking in the member's room after using it.

Here are photos of all of the tools and explanations of what they are. If in doubt of any aspects of bike maintenance, David can help. The box is organised by which bits of the bike the tools are for:

Brakes and Headset:

• 1. Headset cup remover. For sliding up into your head tube, then using a rubber mallet to knock bearing cups out of the frame.
• 2. Home made tool for bashing crown races flat onto new forks (PVC pipe).
• 3. Home made headset cup press, for putting cups back into your frame.
• 4. Star nut installation tool.
• 5. Brake cable housing cutters. These have parrot beak shaped jaws, so you can chop brake and gear cable housings without squashing them; important for keeping the cables running smoothly. Please look after these, they're not a cheap tool. Also have a deburring awl under the rubber cap for making sure the housing ends
• 6. Cables ends, and headset spacers (for 1 1/8 headsets).

Wheels:

• 1. Cone spanners, for adjusting hubs.
• 2. Tyre levers. Metal and ABS.
• 3. Box of brass spoke nipples. Heh. Nipples.
• 4. Valve caps
• 5. Spoke keys. Yellow = 3.4 mm Japanese spokes, Red = 3.25 mm American spokes. The other two are very old and I'm not sure about them.
• 6. Pump. This is additional to the two track pumps that belong to the hackspace.

Spoke nipples, cable ends, and valve caps are consumables, feel free to use them if you need them.

Chainset:

• 1. Crank extractor for splined cranks. Octalink, ISIS, etc.
• 2. Chain link breaker. Used for shortening new chains to the correct length for your chainset, also removing chains that don't have a quick/missing link.
• 3. Chain wear indicator. Place rounded section against roller. If the tooth at the opposite end slips into the chain easily, it indicates that level of wear (depending on which side you use, 0.75% and 1% wear, depending on your chain manufacturer both indicate the need for chain replacement.
• 4. Crank extractor for square taper cranks.
• 5. 24mm socket, for use with cassette lock ring tool.
• 6. Cassette lockring tool. For removing and replacing the sprockets on the back wheel of your bike.
• 7. Bottom bracket tool. Fits Shimano sealed cartridge bottom brackets. It takes a 1/2 inch drive, and the torque wrenches are 1/4, but there's an adapter in the red box with the Sealey torque wrench (see below).

General Tools:

Torque Wrenches and Sockets:

Torque wrenches live in the bottom of the toolbox, and the magnetic parts tray plus sockets and allen+star bits livein a blue case nearby.

The torque wrenches cover most ranges you need for a bike. The silver one in the red box runs from 2 - 24 Newton metres, the black one from 10 - 70 Newton metres.