Well, yes and no. I find cable pullers/4th hand tools incredibly frustrating, especially for a home mechanic without another pair of human hands around. On the Park <http://www.parktool.com/product/cable-stretcher-bt-2> design (also used by Pedro <http://pedros.com/products/tools/brakes-and-shifting/cable-puller/>), the little flippy cog that locks the travel arm in place keeps flipping into position before I've snugged the cable up. Even worse, on the antiquey 1950s-1970s components I usually use, the face of the blocking arm jams up too close to the nut/screw you're trying to tighten. You can't get a wrench on the fastener without wiggling the 4th hand tool into a position that causes the cable to slip, and then you have to start all over again.
If I'm at a bike kitchen and I'm trying to tighten a cable, I'll almost always draft somebody else to hold the 4th hand while I tighten the fastener. At home, I've resigned myself to pulling cables tight with pliers and tightening the fastener with my free hand. A few months ago, I got frustrated enough dealing with my Pedro's 4th hand tool that I threw it at a wall and bent it all to hell. Pedro's apparently has a lifetime warranty; I wonder if they'll do something about this? Does anyone know a 4th hand tool with some different kind of mechanism, or are they all Park clones? Peter Adler who has a low frustration threshold in Berkeley, CA/USA On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 6:55:15 AM UTC-7, Ginz wrote: > > Get the 4th hand tool. It solves the problem completely! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
