Well if you read my pressurized brake bleeder thread you probably heard me mention I am doing my families brake jobs and the list is growing 
So naturally I have been looking/buying brake related tools.
My biggest pet peeve of brake jobs is bleeding the brakes, now that I got that handled I decided to focus on my second least favorite part which is retracting the brake piston. In the past I have always used a C-Clamp and HATED it but I didn't (and still don't) want to drop $30-50 on a sweet pad spreader. I was contemplating making a socket driven one but I didn't feel like welding or going to buy the hardware.
Anyway in the middle of the brake job, the point at which I was suppose to go dig for a C-Clamp, I had a vision. I couldn't get it out of my head how much the brake pad spreader looked like a caulk gun.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009OR8V6/?tag=atomicindus08-20
There is actually several zillion caulk guns that use that same grip/mechanism. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YTSYS/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Then I remembered I had a caulk gun stashed away under the work bench I hadn't used in 5 years.
I zip-tied the grip in case I got carried away with the angle grinder.
A few seconds later..
When I have the time I am going to modify it by making the plunger smaller so it fits inside of the piston and I am going to make the part that catches on the caliper smaller so that it fits a little better in different scenarios. I also need to shorten the rod as the brake pistons don't need anywhere near that amount of travel.
So naturally I have been looking/buying brake related tools.
My biggest pet peeve of brake jobs is bleeding the brakes, now that I got that handled I decided to focus on my second least favorite part which is retracting the brake piston. In the past I have always used a C-Clamp and HATED it but I didn't (and still don't) want to drop $30-50 on a sweet pad spreader. I was contemplating making a socket driven one but I didn't feel like welding or going to buy the hardware.
Anyway in the middle of the brake job, the point at which I was suppose to go dig for a C-Clamp, I had a vision. I couldn't get it out of my head how much the brake pad spreader looked like a caulk gun.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009OR8V6/?tag=atomicindus08-20
There is actually several zillion caulk guns that use that same grip/mechanism. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YTSYS/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Then I remembered I had a caulk gun stashed away under the work bench I hadn't used in 5 years.
I zip-tied the grip in case I got carried away with the angle grinder.
A few seconds later..
When I have the time I am going to modify it by making the plunger smaller so it fits inside of the piston and I am going to make the part that catches on the caliper smaller so that it fits a little better in different scenarios. I also need to shorten the rod as the brake pistons don't need anywhere near that amount of travel.
