3 Tools I Never Expected to Use THIS Much (for BIKE mechanics)!

[@BikeGremlinUS]

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[@HunterAtheist]

Great video as always. Clear and concise information. You never make a video just to make one. Only when you have information you want to share. Much appreciated!

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Thank you for the kind words. Really glad to see you appreciate and understand what my work is all about. Means a lot. Relja

[@tonygenovese6239]

Great video thanks

[@sevenninthsfabmachine]

Thumbs up 👍 for the impact wrench. Bike mechanics get unnecessarily worried about using them on stuck bolts, like SRAM DUB crank bolts, but impact drivers are safer than long breaker bars. There’s a good reason car mechanics use them.

[@impaledface7694]

My 3 unexpected tool would be a mini grease gun, tweezers, long t handle allen keys. The grease gun is just so much cleaner then gooping my hand everytime. The tweezers are awesome when placing ball bearings back in, especially 9/16 or 4mm ones. I can easily dunk the balls in a cleaning solution and pluck them out too. I thought the t- handle allen keys would be unneeded since I always made do with the shorter ones, or allen sockets. Once I started using them the 4,5,and 6 are used almost every time I wrench on my bike now. The park one in particular has the nice angled holder with numbered size so it's a quick grab and go. An impact is great on freewheels too if the normal methods aren't working.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Those are some great (hand) tools. An interesting story: A grease gun was my gift to a friend when he started his bike shop, and he's been using it daily ever since (just as I have been using mine). Relja

[@Yokssama]

Nice video like always 👍 My impact wrench served me well on my stubborn bottom bracket and some stuck pedal (best combo ,heat gun and impact wrench, win all the times 😆) Just remember to use the impact wrench in the right direction... For my part , i need a compressor and a torque wrench.

[@Steff320i]

"Collecting dust", lol. Good one.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

😁

[@edmundas919]

Since you have a compressor, air powered impact wrench would be cheaper option and you wouldn't need to think about battery charge, but not as portable. Also for stuck seat post there is a puller tool and a lot of people DIY it.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

I got the battery tools for many other tasks (field work too). So, since I've already got batteries and a charger, I just pay for the tool, and enjoy the maximum portability (and no worries about cables or air hoses).

[@emilycs8823]

I use my pedal wrench constantly. I have the park pro, unior, and pedros. All 3 get the job done but my Park pro is my favorite. It makes quick work of getting seized pedals off, properly tightening pedals., and quickly spinning them on. Another unexpected favorite would be a soft ski tuning gummy stone. I use quite often for deburring, and polishing cut edges when I trim seatposts, cut bars, etc... Third would be my DT Swiss spokey pro. I have never rounded a nipple with this, and its perfection.

[@thankmelater1254]

You forgot to credit the most important tool you had to get first - money. The best tool I ever bought was a Craftsman vacuum on sale at Sears, which had great sales every other week. I was able to clean up all the debris from a wall taken down carelessly that had lots of debris fall into a garden next door to the project. Everything from chunks of brick to dust on the plant leaves got sucked up with that machine which cost less than $100. That was an incredible tool with huge water vacuuming capacity. You could say that neither company exists anymore - even though the Craftsman name still goes on tools.

[@thankmelater1254]

I still have a small home vac from the Sears Craftsman sales. Since I had trouble finding the disposable dust bags I've been using high grade 3M furnace filter material (so no problem of filter material getting into the room air) tied around the cage with cable ties and that works out less expensive than the vacuum bags and provides better air quality.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Sounds like a good solution. Improvise, adapt, overcome! :)

[@jasonbusch3624]

You need an air hammer for your air compressor to remove stuck seat post without drilling a hole and destroying them. Spray PB blaster or liquid wrench penetrating oil on them and let set for a little bit then use a pointed chisel air hammer attachment in the hex screw head that holds the seat clamp. It will push to seat post right out of the frame. Most of the time even the screw is still usable. On a cheap style I use a hammer head style attachment in the air hammer against the underside of the cheap seat clamp. Easily removing the seat post without destroying parts is the best way.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Haven't tried that method. Fair to note that with an aluminium-steel galvanic corrosion, penetrating oil does nothing (aluminium expands too much and seals any gaps for oil to penetrate).

[@jasonbusch3624]

@BikeGremlinUS the seat post is covered in oil when you get done. It does help.

[@araneus32]

Priznaj da si rešio da snimiš video samo da bi napravio foru sa sakupljanjem prašine :D Šalu na stranu, nastavi sa jasnim konciznim i korisnim snimcima.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Haha. :) Gox-u dojadilo slušati kako se oduševljavam sa tih par alata, pa je predložio da snimimo video (valjda misli čovek: što bi vama bilo bolje nego nama!? :) ). Usisivač bio moja ideja, naknadno - mada sam prvo planirao prikazati samo tri alata i završiti na tome.

[@abacaxiveer]

Oh, Serbia. Now the hub dynamo makes more sense, more than in the USA, (who should be using it of course) :). And what, no Dremel? :)

[@BikeGremlinUS]

:) Dremel is quite good - but it worked as I expected it to work, not better (nor worse). The tools in the video are the top ones in terms of being a lot more useful than I had expected.

[@dkaigorodov]

I put the 50th like, hej!

[@deltafour1212]

You forgot the most important tool, the hammer. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you destroy it. ;)

[@BikeGremlinUS]

I'm subtle... a 125 mm angle grinder does it for me. :)

[@Testbug-dy6tj]

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