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Handy little tool tip:
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Ha...I did something similar with my vice recently. Was a bit of fucking around as I had to get some wood in there to protect the soft alloys from the vine's jagged face.
 
beeb said:
Handy little tool tip:
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Those are the real deal as I can read the KN of Knipex. Bloody expensive tools unless you buy the rip-offs from AE.
Full set of 8", 10" & 12" for about $80 and they are decent copies too. $400 for the real deal.
 
ozzybmx said:
Those are the real deal as I can read the KN of Knipex. Bloody expensive tools unless you buy the rip-offs from AE.
Full set of 8", 10" & 12" for about $80 and they are decent copies too. $400 for the real deal.
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Love my Knipex 180mm pliers wrench. So much better than a shifting spanner. Lives in the bike toolbox.
 
PJO said:
Love my Knipex 180mm pliers wrench. So much better than a shifting spanner. Lives in the bike toolbox.
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The apprentice plumber got me on to them, he is using the 8" & 12" currently.

He's not too shabby at buying tools and gear, resembling a packout model for Milwaukee but the fake pliers wrenches are doing the job for for him at the mo.
 
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Came across a retired hydraulics engineer today who carried his and his missus e-bikes under a hardtop canopy on the back of their D-Max. What caught my eye was his fork traps. He used a pair of 15 mm polypropylene hydraulic pipe clamp assemblies from Stauff to hold the Kabolts in each of the bikes forks. The clamps are held closed by some machine screws that he did up with a battery driver. Solid as for long distance rough road travel and a cheap solution too as one complete assembly is around $8.
 
rowdyflat said:
so the clamps are PP blocks and screwed tight around the horizontal fork and rear axles ?
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Yes they are PP blocks. They were clamped tight around the 15 mm front axle (20 mm clamps are available too) which is fitted into the fork. With a little shim and careful placement, one could also use the clamps to form a more typical trap. But this worked fine.

Bonus bit is that the Kabolt wasn't ever going to turn once clamped so there's no way anyone could pinch the bike in a hurry.

Turns out that the same company does similar clamps with two different styles of elastomer core that allow for some movement but I'm not sure that's ideal
 
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