I ought to get one of these; I've used the old Park hex style for decades, with no more damage than burring the edges of a few aluminum locknuts, but this Stein type will be better
Only, does one have to pay $60 at Missing Link Tools (the sole source Google showed me) to get one? The only Stein wrench I found is on eBay for $86. I agree with Hugh, you just don't have to adjust decent headsets (and just about any aftermarket headset sold in the US is decent, IME) once you get them right. Heck, even the OEM ones on generic commodity bikes stay put, as far as my experience goes. That said, perhaps I should saven my money, but if I can find a Stein type for $40 or less, I'll bite. Now some of the cheap Indian-made headsets I worked on came loose all the time, but perhaps taht was because I used a "monkey wrench" to "adjust" them. So, sources? Thanks. PS: What do you (all) use to hold the cup in place while you tighten the locknut? Me, a large adjustable wrench which hasn't slipped yet. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Grant Petersen <grant6...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "secret" to properly snugging a threaded headset is to use two > wrenches (in the case of a non-Rinko style). The spanner kind goes on the > cup flats, and it's really helpful to use the Stein-type (now also made by > Park) that's chunky and grabs around about 230 degrees and cannot slip.... > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
