Originally Posted by
noglider
I've used this tool TWICE in the last couple of weeks!
First, I used it to straighten a steel fork on a racing bike with 700c wheels.
Then I used it to widen and de-rake the fork on my 1973 Raleigh Twenty.
It's a great tool. I mentioned to my LBS that I'd like to buy it, but the folks there only chuckled in response.
Excuse me but didn't you just tell me if I rode my very slightly bent fork after straightening "You will die"
in the "Love of English 3 speed" thread?
And the second tool is actually a fork straightener as well- it's exactly like the one we had back in '73 and ''74- the summers in college I worked at the Bicycle Peddler at 38 th and Georgetown Roads in Indianapolis. It worked pretty well on the cheap bikes I personally used it on once or twice- but I wouldn't want to have ridden them much either- and never in a race!
The flats behind the moving "jack" part rest up against the BB and one of the hook slots of your choice on the red part of it fit on the hub axle- you pump the handle and - voila- the car jack pushes the axle away from the BB.
By the way, I ordered a used replacement fork for the 3 speed- but then found some new ones on Amazon too, shipped under $20- although they are out of stock on the chrome I would have preferred. Don't know what a shop wants to straighten a fork these days-
the park tools are listed on ebay starting about $65.