Originally Posted by
Bill Kapaun
Since it appears from your other thread, that you are just starting out in bicycle repair, skip the repair stand for now.
About the only thing that's useful for a BEGINNING mechanic that it'll do is making it easier to "tune" derailleurs. It saves some of the "tweek & ride", repeat until you got it right scenario.
Most everything else can be done with the bike upside down or hanging by a couple of ropes from the rafters.
Put your money into basic hand tools to service-
Bearings- Wheels, then BB, then headset.
GOOD cone wrenches, Cheap metric combination wrench set (4-17mm) and GOOD Allen wrench set. (?- 8/10mm)
Tub of grease.
Bags of 3/16 & 1/4" Grade 25 bearing balls.
WTH are you talking about? No offense, but your advice is 20 years out of date. I just recycled several bags of bearings I hadn't looked at since the early '90s. Sure, OP may have all loose bearing gear, but it isn't likely. And even if so, how could you possibly know what ball diameters he would need without even knowing the brands, models, and versions of his equipment. Ridiculous. I should have just sent my stock of bearings to OP. Then he could have moved them around his tool box for 20 more years, but at least all the posters on this thread would have been happy he had them.
Robert