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Scottish software producer, BearingProTools, continues to broaden its vary of inexpensive bearing pullers and bearing presses. Of observe is the wind-out bearing puller that lets you, nicely, wind-out the bearing in a sluggish and managed method, preferable to tapping it out with a hammer. These new designs complement the model’s considerably in depth array of body bearing software kits, with the variety of bike-specific software kits now upwards of 500!
As BearingProTools expands its vary of software designs, it’s also within the strategy of shifting into a bigger workshop whereas investing in new CNC machines to permit additional enchancment of its merchandise. Jim MacPhail, founding father of BearingProTools, tells us his purpose is so as to add many extra instruments to the vary over the approaching yr, providing riders high quality, value efficient instruments for performing the entire bearing upkeep jobs that aren’t well-catered for by the massive software producers.
BearingProTools’ new Wind-out Bearing Puller presents a cleaner, smoother technique for bearing elimination that ensures the bearing is eliminated straight. The strategy is probably going a lot kinder to the bike than the extra conventional, let’s assume, technique of tapping it out with a hammer; notably necessary within the case of carbon frames and hyperlinks, after all. The Wind-Out Puller is designed for elimination of bearings the place the “again” of the bearing is accessible; i.e., bearings inside detachable suspension hyperlinks.
To work, the wind-out puller requires a flat floor across the bearing for the ‘cup’ a part of the software to relaxation on (on the facet that the bearing is eliminated to). The cup usually has 1mm clearance from the sting of the bearing and has a 4mm thick wall. In addition to the puller you will want a 13mm spanner and a 6mm allen key. Alternatively, instead of the 13mm spanner, you can even use the BearingProTools T-Bar Deal with.
The method is proven very clearly within the video under.
All instruments are bearing size-specific, designed to match the inner and exterior diameters of the bearing in query. Every wind-out bearing puller retails at £12.
For blind bearings nestled inside the body (the place just one facet is accessible), BearingProTools nonetheless have the Increasing Puller that makes use of strain exerted on the inside race to tug the bearing out straight. These additionally retail at £12 every. The Increasing Pullers are additionally a part of the frame-specific software kits which can be out there. BearingProTools at the moment provide over 500 frame-specific software kits, overlaying all the main manufacturers together with Trek, Specialised, Large, Canyon, Nukeproof, Norco, Ibis, Santa Cruz, Transition… the listing goes on.
For instance, you may get all of the instruments (actual, size-specific instruments) it is advisable to exchange the body bearings on any Nukeproof for simply £24. Pricing of the body kits does differ after all; with some bikes with extra pivots working totally different measurement bearings, the value can go as excessive as £74 (i’m taking a look at you, Guerrilla Gravity).
Try the entire vary of instruments from BearingProTools, together with wheel bearing and backside bracket bearing instruments, on the BearingProTools web site.
