Beginners basic home tool kit.

[overmind]

has anybody mentioned cheater bar. One of my favourite tools. Used for removing freehubs and BB fixed cups.

 

[tamiya]

has anybody mentioned cheater bar. One of my favourite tools. Used for removing freehubs and BB fixed cups.

when you've got an old faithful frame that's beyond redemption... chop out its tubes to live on as tools

 

[byegad]

I bought a cheap set from one of the online retailers. the whole thing was £25 some 15+ yrs ago. The allen keys wore out in a couple of yrs and I bought a good set, most of the set is still intact, although I've added some bits and replaced others over the years.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

has anybody mentioned cheater bar. One of my favourite tools. Used for removing freehubs and BB fixed cups.

I have both a metric & imperial adjustable spanners

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I have both a metric & imperial adjustable spanners

I too have one that measures in bushels.

 

[raleighnut]

Mine is left handed.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I too have one that measures in bushels.

Mine is left handed.

You both think I am joking, I'm going out for a ride & when I get back I'll post an image

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I forgot I am taking the Grandson swimming so bike ride cancelled, anyway

Here is my Imperial adjustable spanner on the right with Metric on the left

10 Inch

250MM

 

[Blue Hills]

If working on older bikes then a big adjustable (Bahco) and a headset spanner are needed and thin cone spanners.

+1 for bahco for holding tool for non external bearing bottom bracket removal. Quality item. Most adjustables have the dreaded jaw wobble.

 

[Blue Hills]

Rubber gloves - dermatitis is no fun.

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Must admit I rarely use gloves. Either hamper my feel or they tear. Prefer to coat hands in acqueous cream, do the dirty business, wash, often shower after bike fettling which ensures hands are well cleaned.

 

[Blue Hills]

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acqueous cream cheap stuff - not high class moisturiser - available from pound shops or lidl - got the idea after discovering that swargega did a "barrier cream".

I base my theory on the (maybe hopeful) idea that modern legislation wouldn't let folk sell most day to day greases that were actually seriously dangerous.

Warning - no brexit comments please - never stopped the ndrangheta poisoning Italian mozarella.

 

[Pale Rider]

A tub of sawdust to mix with washing up liquid to get your hands clean after fettling.

 

[Blue Hills]

A tub of sawdust to mix with washing up liquid to get your hands clean after fettling.

good suggestion. what do you use to protect your hands while you are generating the sawdust?

 

[wonderloaf]

Bent piece if wire to hold the ends of a
split chain, makes installing the new link sooooo much easier.

 

[DCBassman]

Bent piece if wire to hold the ends of a
split chain, makes installing the new link sooooo much easier.

Finding the once-ubiquitous wire coathanger to fashion one of these was far more difficult than I thought it would be!