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What is your favorite tool to work on a bicycle?

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Yep,
You can see it hanging on the wall up by the phone in that last picture.
I knew I had to have it, the first time I encountered one of those closed end forks without the axle slots.
Tony was a tool man.
If there was a specific tool, made for a specific task, Tony had it.
His shop was definitely eclectic, but he was/is a good old school bike mechanic.
 
Another indispensable tool I got from Tony, was this axle vise.
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You can see it hanging by the phone, just below the frame/fork spreading tool in that last picture.
Super handy when working with old hubs that have been around for awhile.
You’d think it would booger up the threads, but it doesn’t.
It just locks the axle down, so that those tight cones and lock nuts can be removed with civility.
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This is the only makers mark I could find on it.
 
To me there's only one way to know when to put the tools down and take a shower. Or get a good helper.
 
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