Originally Posted by
makeinu
There's a reason why I argue. Do you know what it is? I'll give you a hint. You remember the chain tool thread. Well, I broke the chain with a hammer, a nail, and a pair of pliers, it was a smashing success and it's still going strong despite the pages of hecking from a throng of people with "a lot of riding experience".
So you see, the problem is that supposed experts with tons of experience are rarely right. If I didn't listen to them and ended up being wrong then I would stop making threads like this where I end up arguing with everybody, but the problem is that 9/10 I end up being right.
Aw crap, I knew I shouldn't have taken those vaccines, and my wife could have avoided that whole ankle operation with a plate and 12 screws if she would have just come on home and smacked it back into shape with a hammer a few times and used a nail to pin it. Well, I am never trusting an expert again. Thank you very much, I'm going to save a fortune in medical insurance.
In all seriousness, occasionally people win the intellectual lottery and find something the experts missed but I seriously do not think this is one of those cases.
Now for a confession, I did use a vice grip to turn my bottom bracket tool today which maybe was a little ghetto and not the right tool for the job but I didn't have a crescent wrench big enough to grab it so call me a hypocrite if you must.