Recent content by rochbicyclist

I'd avoid that. There's a big gap on either side of the pulley and the rope gets easily jammed between the pulley and bracket. Then you have to climb up on a ladder to get it unjammed. You could substitute thicker rope, but then you'd have to modify the mechanism that locks the rope in place.

The HF one doesn't have metric mandrels (plus it breaks if you use steel rivnuts instead of the aluminum ones it comes with). McMaster-Carr has some installers that are inexpensive if you only need one size: http://www.mcmaster.com/#rivet-nut-installation-tools/=758xft (scroll down to...

I used one of these to ream out the steel seat tube on a bicycle so that a seatpost would fit. Granted, I didn't have to remove much material, but it worked fine. I suspect long-term durability is where these would fail.

The first one looks like a BMX freewheel remover: http://tinyurl.com/yk6zan6

Pedro's (a bicycle tool company) has them in metric sizes 8mm to 15mm: http://tinyurl.com/pqd23u (Amazon site). I like them a lot (though I doubt I would pay the current price; I got them on sale for about $40). My only complaint is that they sometimes fit the fastener so snugly that they're...

I don't know of any cone wrenches that come in 10 mm. They're usually 13 mm and up. However, Park Tool does make some 10 mm wrenches for working on thin brake nuts: http://www.parktool.com/products/detail.asp?cat=14&item=CBW-1

That looks like the logo for "Wrench Force," a line of bicycle tools sold by Trek (www.trekbikes.com -- site seems to be down right now) and which usually have the label "Engineered by Snap-on." Here's a page with the logo: http://heartnsole.net/page.cfm?pageID=98 I don't think the Wrench...