Old Tool Time

     This is the Park SS-1. It is used(primarily) to straighten bent stays. You put the outer hooks on either side of the bend with the center hook centered on the bend and then you can screw the center hook in or out to push everything back in to place(more or less).

     Park does not offer this tool anymore. As steel bikes have gone the way of the thylacine and aluminum and carbon don't really like being bent, tools like this are getting very infrequent use.

    This is a thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger. They looked like dogs but were marsupials.

     I am working on a post(or posts, maybe a two parter) about hydraulic disk brakes. If you have any questions, let me know and I will incorporate them in to my post.