JacobLee 

Grab bag of vintage bike tools from an estate sale. Haven’t opened it yet, but I thought it might be a fun guessing game. What’s in there?!?!

p.s. I bought this up the street from where I found my ‘71 International for $25. It’s some sort of vintage vortex.

tyrion

Bike tools are in there.

xiaoman1 

I spy a seat wrench, universal bicycle wrench, a few socket wrenches (can't make out the sizes) a T wrench and a 15mm wrench.
Can't make out the rest bags a bit greasy....but still a nice fun bag of stuff
Ben

P.S. What street do you live on...I'm up for a CV vortex.

CliffordK

There's a spoke wrench in the middle under that T-wrench.

I'm curious about the "T" connected to a screw. Cotter extractor? We need better photos. Left threads?

I think those multi-wrenches used to be popular for compact do-everything tools, but have fallen out of favor, especially as bikes have moved more towards Allen wrenches than hex bolts/nuts.

JacobLee 

Can you spot the piece from the waiters’s corkscrew?

nlerner

That stamped steel multi-tool spanner above the spoke wrench, 2nd column. from the left, is for Raleigh-specific, i.e., Whitworth, nuts and bolts.

JacobLee 

No kidding! I can adjust the seatpost on my Raleigh!

nlerner

You can try--though I find those open-ended fittings have a tendency to slip!

machinist42

One row down, second in from the left. At first I thought it was a bladed jockey wheel replacement from the all bicycle reboot of the chariot scene from Ben Hur.

Do I win a Stronglight 23.35 crank puller/dust cap and bolt remover? (I could really use a Stronglight crank puller.)

Doug Fattic 

The Park tool at the middle top is their copy of a Campy tool designed for adjusting the bolts on classic Campy seat posts after or while the seat is being attached. The open end is for the nut on the front of Brooks saddles. The Campy T tool has 6mm hexs and a 10 mm socket. Just above it is the Campy crank puller. Usually it is paired with a "peanut butter" 15mm box wrench that fits both crank bolts as well as the crank puller. One of the others is probably for TA cranks.

JacobLee 

Aha, stronglight crank puller, I was wondering about that little thing.

I wouldn’t even have bought the bag ($8) if I hadn’t spotted Brev. Camp. on the T wrench. I figured there had to be cool stuff in there!

clubman 

Top left, stamped open ended wrench is from a dremel tool.

JacobLee 

Yeah, definitely some crap in there!

I wonder if these two have met before?

Thanks nlerner , I never would have figured that out!

repechage

The Park seatpost tool has the advantage of having a 12 pt "Socket" end, the Campagnolo tool is only 6 points and of slightly less utility. ( I now use one of the ratchet end pivot end wrenches- works even better)
The Campagnolo "T" wrench is a classic. There needs to be a 9mm version for Mafac brakes. Writing of which, there is a Japanese tool for holding the business end of Mafac brake pad holders secure while adjusting the position nut. Nice, but not $55. nice.
Will see if I can create my own. An excellent idea.
I think the French puller is Stronglight, note the secondary socket for that to use with a tommybar.

The stamped "multi-tool" wrenches are not useless, but not what I would buy.

Sugino, Stronglight, Campagnolo crank pullers. the mechanic worked on various bikes. This is kind of the tool kit I would expect to see additional tools to go with and this fellow may have been the local Bikeman.

JohnDThompson 

Besides the obvious cone wrenches and such, there are a few interesting tools:

steelbikeguy

the little wrench/screwdriver in the lower right corner looks an awful lot like the tool that came in an old Erector set! If the wrench is 1/4", then that's probably what it is.

The Stronglight crank extractor might be the neatest thing in the bag, imho.
The Sugino extractor might be 2nd best... I still use mine much more than my Park extractor.

Steve in Peoria

JacobLee 

“The Sugino extractor might be 2nd best... I still use mine much more than my Park extractor.”

Here’s the one I found today, above the one I bought in 1986. Old one is a little longer and says Japan. Mine is mushroomed and doesn’t say Japan. When I was 16, I pulled my Sugino crank so often that I wore out the taper and had to replace it. I liked it clean, I guess.

juvela

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does anyone recognize the two curved items with the bluish paint in the lower left corner?

am thinking that if they really are bicycle related they might be part of a HOZAN tool...

wylde speculation


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Mad Honk 

The clamp on weight second row 1st item looks like the weight for an original Brunswick golf shaft frequency meter. The racheted end tyre lever next to it seems to have some pretty decent chrome left on it. Smiles, MH

Mad Honk 

The two blue blocks may be the opposing sides of a wheel rim clamp for straightening curb dents in steel rims. MH

CliffordK

Those spoke wrenches can work well.

I like it, two of the multi-tools even have tire levers.

It looks like you've come up with a couple of useful bits, and a lot of stuff to fill up the Junk Drawer.

JacobLee 

Yes, I had a feeling that round chrome thing is not a bike tool, so a golf club weight makes sense. The ratcheted thing, I think, is one arm off a waiters corkscrew. The estate sale folks had thrown all this stuff in a bag and taped it shut, so it’s kinda funny to see what qualifies as a bike tool.

JacobLee 

That would make sense! I feel like I’ve seen clamps like this before, so I’ll keep an eye out for the rest of the parts. Not like I want anything to do with steel rims, but still.

JacobLee 

There are two multi tools marked F&S, which I just looked up as Fichtel & Sachs. German. I wonder what that little lockring tooth is for?

And I guess the Mafac wrenches are pretty common?

Bad Lag

I used to have one of those Campagnolo crank extractors (black, 3rd column from left).

It broke in use one day, while pulling a crank. As I screwed the bolt inwards, the body just peeled apart into two pieces, separating where the large outer threads taper down to meet the smaller diameter shank. It broke right where you might think, despite the large, tapered radius where the two meet.

I still have the Campagnolo "peanut butter" wrench that was its mate but the extractor is gone.

I was amazed.

P.S. - Is there a reason you have it labeled as "Maxy-type" instead of Campagnolo?