Rim wreckers & Nut knackeres

[PeteXXX]

Anyone still use these, or keep them in the saddlebag?

 

[Profpointy]

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Anyone still use these, or keep them in the saddlebag?

I think you'd have a job to knacker a nut with one of them spanners - I think they were made of a slightly metalic soft cheese if I recall correctly.

 

[biggs682]

I think you'd have a job to knacker a nut with one of them spanners - I think they were made of a slightly metalic soft cheese if I recall correctly.

i have a couple of the old box spanners and yes soft as cheese

and i still use the metal tyre levers as plastic ones break to easily

 

[tyred]

If you have a decent quality dumbbell spanner it won't be made from cheese.

I always use steel tyre levers and have never damaged a rim.

 

[MichaelW2]

My dumbbell is cast bronze. It seems to work OK.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Great thread title.

 

[Globalti]

I got a puncture on my motor bike on the M6 very late one night. Managed to put it in gear and walk beside it for a mile up the hill to Keele Services where a friendly young chap in the garage (they used to have garages) helped me remove the tyre and fit a spare inner tube. He then proceeded to set about my tyre enthusiastically with a very large tyre lever of the type used on lorry wheels. The tyre refused to pump up so we took the tube out and found.... SEVEN punctures made by the tyre lever.

 

[Profpointy]

I got a puncture on my motor bike on the M6 very late one night. Managed to put it in gear and walk beside it for a mile up the hill to Keele Services where a friendly young chap in the garage (they used to have garages) helped me remove the tyre and fit a spare inner tube. He then proceeded to set about my tyre enthusiastically with a very large tyre lever of the type used on lorry wheels. The tyre refused to pump up so we took the tube out and found.... SEVEN punctures made by the tyre lever.

I had something similar years ago. Guy used a screwdriver to prise the tyre off. The rim got munged and never held air properly afterwards

 

[John the Monkey]

Locally, I've always heard the spanners referred to as "Dogbone" spanners. Mine have been decent quality and useful - I pop one in most of my toolkits as a result.

Never felt the need for metal tyre levers though.

 

[Crackle]

I've still got and carry metal tyre levers like that, still prefer them to the new fangled plastic things. Don't think I have any nuts on any bikes now, so no dumbell spanner for me and when I did it was always in two halfs because they tended to snap.

 

[Sharky]

I use the metal tyre levers in preference to plastic ones, much more reliable and easier to use. Some plastic ones don't even have the hook to hold it with the spoke.

Used to carry one of the "dumb bell" spanners when hex nuts were used on stems, saddle, brakes etc, but now it's all Allen keys or QR's.

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

I had one dumb bell spanner break in half, another older one, must be better made, still sees use from time to time. No metal tyre levers anymore; we used to use spoons from the kitchen cutlery drawer...

 

[Smokin Joe]

Cycle tools used to be designed by Psychiatrists to test the extent a human being could be driven before they cracked and ended up rocking on the floor and sobbing uncontrollably.

 

[Twizit]

Use both of those regularly on the single speed / fixie without issue

 

[oldwheels]

Metal tyre levers always since all plastic ones broken. Never damaged a rim yet.