Purchased a pretty old set of used park tools. Among them were these 3. Think the spanner might be SPA-3? Can’t find any article saying what it’s used for.
The top two non park tools but have no idea what they could be for. One end is a tire lever but not sure what the 3 hex openings are for.
Anyone have an idea?
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Top one is a 3rd hand tool for adjusting brakes. Not sure of the others.
Top one = third hand tool for setting calliper brake cable tension.
Middle one = combination tyre lever and wheel nut spanner.
Bottom one = is, as you say, SPA-3. It’s just a pin spanner, but used for some threaded headsets.
2nd one is a combo tyre lever and 8, 9, 10mm spanner.
Middle one is a tyre lever with a bonus multi sized nutfucker
Top to bottom:
– Third hand tool for brake adjustment
– Multi-tool with tire lever and a few wrench sizes, almost certainly not made by Park.
– Park pin spanner (lockring tool) from an era before they were assigned numbers. This would serve the same function as a tool like the HCW-5 does today.
Get out of your daddy’s toolbox!
I always gets mixed up between 3d hand and 4th hand. 3d holds pads near rim and 4th is the cable puller?
I think the Park tool is for holding BB lockring while adjusting BB cups so both don’t spin together.
I have a three piece version of the middle tool. It’s really neat for older bikes. I wish I had titanium version. Stupid titanium club.
The Third Hand Tool catalog was pretty funny back in the day.
This guy with three arms appears on several of the pages. This is the cover:
https://preview.redd.it/n3bp6d8bwcdg1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7736b4b7421c565af4a61960781d61dc22edb481