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That Fiat screwdriver might be of limited use...

 

The phillips screwdriver is useful, I've also used the small cutting blade and bottle opener often. The serrated part isn't long enough. I sometimes wonder if it's illegal to carry, because it has self-defence possibilities when completely open - doesn't lock opened out straight, but it doesn't have to. Locking blades are illegal. I make sure to remove it from my keyring before travelling by air, using an airplane.

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:p

 

♫ I was gonna fix my bike when it broke down, but then I got high...♫

 

 

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To throw a spanner in the works as it were :D...has anyone mentioned the nut on hub motors (assuming you are using a hub drive) is usually 18 mm?

 

Look at my opening answer in post 2, this fully covered by the below:

 

"The Torq and Quando motor spindle nuts are 18 mm, a size often not included in the average spanner set which commonly jumps from 17 to 19 mm. Separate spanners are expensive and even open ended spanners are often too long for a compact toolbag like the one mentioned above. A rummage in your existing toolbox can provide a solution if you have a spare 17 mm or 11/16" spanner, since chrome vanadium is easily filed and hacksawn. A millimetre filed out of the jaw of the former or just over half a millimetre from the latter will do the trick. Then you can saw off the unwanted end of the spanner with the usual high speed steel hacksaw blade and smooth it to provide a compact 18 mm spanner for your "on road" toolkit. Both the 18 mm spanners in the Torq and Quando toolkits illustrated above were made in this way from old unwanted items. and the 16 mm ring spanner for the Torq's rear wheel nuts is an old item cut in half. "

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Look at my opening answer in post 2, this fully covered by the below:

 

"The Torq and Quando motor spindle nuts are 18 mm, a size often not included in the average spanner set which commonly jumps from 17 to 19 mm. Separate spanners are expensive and even open ended spanners are often too long for a compact toolbag like the one mentioned above. A rummage in your existing toolbox can provide a solution if you have a spare 17 mm or 11/16" spanner, since chrome vanadium is easily filed and hacksawn. A millimetre filed out of the jaw of the former or just over half a millimetre from the latter will do the trick. Then you can saw off the unwanted end of the spanner with the usual high speed steel hacksaw blade and smooth it to provide a compact 18 mm spanner for your "on road" toolkit. Both the 18 mm spanners in the Torq and Quando toolkits illustrated above were made in this way from old unwanted items. and the 16 mm ring spanner for the Torq's rear wheel nuts is an old item cut in half. "

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Ah, my bad I didn't click on the link in your post :) :

 

http://www.flecc.uk/t/tools.html

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Now... You've got a torque wrench haven't you ...

 

o_O

Funnily enough I've got two, but when you own a land rover your garage somehow seems to fill up with tools

Look at my opening answer in post 2, this fully covered by the below:

 

"The Torq and Quando motor spindle nuts are 18 mm, a size often not included in the average spanner set which commonly jumps from 17 to 19 mm. Separate spanners are expensive and even open ended spanners are often too long for a compact toolbag like the one mentioned above. A rummage in your existing toolbox can provide a solution if you have a spare 17 mm or 11/16" spanner, since chrome vanadium is easily filed and hacksawn. A millimetre filed out of the jaw of the former or just over half a millimetre from the latter will do the trick. Then you can saw off the unwanted end of the spanner with the usual high speed steel hacksaw blade and smooth it to provide a compact 18 mm spanner for your "on road" toolkit. Both the 18 mm spanners in the Torq and Quando toolkits illustrated above were made in this way from old unwanted items. and the 16 mm ring spanner for the Torq's rear wheel nuts is an old item cut in half. "

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you should come shopping with me round halfrauds ill nick everything you want up to 249 quid :p

That Fiat screwdriver might be of limited use...

 

The question is whether it is a tool for making a Fiat car work (which might be useful if you own one) or it is a Fiat tool, a tool that instigates a command or act of will that creates something without or as if without further effort. :D

To throw a spanner in the works as it were :D...has anyone mentioned the nut on hub motors (assuming you are using a hub drive) is usually 18 mm?

 

Why even mention it ?

 

Who is daft enough to have a 'toolkit' for a bike, that they have not checked does fit the nuts, bolts and screws used ?

Why even mention it ?

 

Who is daft enough to have a 'toolkit' for a bike, that they have not checked does fit the nuts, bolts and screws used ?

 

Well, as [mention=4]flecc[/mention] said, 18 mm is a little unusual for most spanner sets. When I first got into e-bikes, I was surprised that 18 mm was used, I assumed it would be 19 mm. There are people who buy a set of tools, stick them in storage and never use them until they are in the middle of nowhere and have a problem, then find they don't have what they thought they needed. Better to say it now, rather than find out later.

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