Ideal Spoke Key
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Ideal Spoke Key
-all common varieties of spoke types
-does not need to be extremely portable
-function with a good price
What do you suggest?
thanks a bunch
-does not need to be extremely portable
-function with a good price
What do you suggest?
thanks a bunch
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Park is my favorite.
https://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...YL._AA280_.jpg
I've tried a competitors that looks just like a park but had problems with them cracking.
https://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...YL._AA280_.jpg
I've tried a competitors that looks just like a park but had problems with them cracking.
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for multiple spoke types you suggest buying a single wrench for each type over a multi tool?
do the multi spoke tools work that great
is it just clean-simple-and functional to have one tool per type?
do the multi spoke tools work that great
is it just clean-simple-and functional to have one tool per type?
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Park rules. Why? Color coded for size, precise fit prevents rounding of nipples due to incorrect fit, lasts a long time like a Tootsie Roll.
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While not exactly a multi size spoke wrench, I've done some things with this one that I would not have thought possible:
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...6&item=SW%2D10
Absolutely the best tool for stubborn or frozen spokes. I don't use it very often, but there is no other tool like it. It's expensive, but mine has paid for itself a bunch of times.
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...6&item=SW%2D10
Absolutely the best tool for stubborn or frozen spokes. I don't use it very often, but there is no other tool like it. It's expensive, but mine has paid for itself a bunch of times.
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While not exactly a multi size spoke wrench, I've done some things with this one that I would not have thought possible:
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...6&item=SW%2D10
Absolutely the best tool for stubborn or frozen spokes. I don't use it very often, but there is no other tool like it. It's expensive, but mine has paid for itself a bunch of times.
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...6&item=SW%2D10
Absolutely the best tool for stubborn or frozen spokes. I don't use it very often, but there is no other tool like it. It's expensive, but mine has paid for itself a bunch of times.
The shop I worked in years ago had one of them.
I was thinking of those four sided things.....
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I use the spin doctor ones. The multisize one that came with my tool kit stunk and rounded to many nipples. I bought a set of their park knockoffs, horseshoe shaped, and they work very well.
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I love my "Spokey" four-sided wrench for $7 It holds on to nipples when I let go.
I got mine at:
https://oddsandendos.safeshopper.com/20/cat20.htm?284
I got mine at:
https://oddsandendos.safeshopper.com/20/cat20.htm?284
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There are basically three sizes of spoke nipples and only two of them are at all common.
The Park size 0 (black) fits the "good" spokes, DT, Wheelsmith, etc. and should be the one you will use most of the time.
The Park size 1 (green) fits Union and a few other rarely seen European spokes and probably isn't needed.
The Park size 2 (red) fits "Japanese" spokes that were used on Japanese bikes in the past but they don't seem to be around much anymore.
The Park size 0 (black) fits the "good" spokes, DT, Wheelsmith, etc. and should be the one you will use most of the time.
The Park size 1 (green) fits Union and a few other rarely seen European spokes and probably isn't needed.
The Park size 2 (red) fits "Japanese" spokes that were used on Japanese bikes in the past but they don't seem to be around much anymore.
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+1 on the Spokey. Not quite as fast as the Park tool, but that's because it's 'four sided' and fits better.
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I've had much better luck with Spokey wrenches, color coded for sizes. I've never damaged a nipple with Spokey. I use the red one on DT aluminum alloy nipples.
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I build daily in the shop and use the Spokey Pro version. Cheap as chips, fast, comfy and never rounds a nipple. I must have collected every key availble over the years and still use a spokey. The red version fits most nipples with the yellow occasionally seeing the light of day with some older Japanese nipples.
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