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847: 304: 292: 280: 316: 33: 268: 256:. They look a lot like an oil-filter wrench of the strap type (except they are a flat piece of metal that wraps around the piston). If no wrench is available, an old piston ring snapped into two halves can be used to compress each of the new rings as the piston is inserted. 232:. It is called a chain whip because it has a short section of chain used to grip the sprocket. An alternative method to tighten sprockets is the 303: 291: 17: 279: 793: 734: 175:, and are smooth, highly flexible, non-marring, high-friction straps. (Before the era of commercial polymers, the straps were of 744: 347: 105: 709: 77: 315: 187:, moderately flexible, slightly firmer and more likely to mar than the polymer variants. The chains tend to be of the 124: 84: 62: 846: 58: 91: 54: 786: 73: 480: 882: 749: 665: 340: 43: 440: 714: 704: 699: 47: 908: 779: 739: 729: 267: 719: 164:
Many strap wrenches have built-in handles. Others are made to receive the square drive of a
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are actually strap wrenches. Others are of the socket type or the pliers type.
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Piston-ring compressors are strap wrenches that evenly squeeze (compress) the
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The strap or chain can have various forms. Some straps are made of
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A strap wrench variant (one form of oil filter wrench).
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A strap wrench variant (one form of oil filter wrench).
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A strap wrench variant (one form of oil filter wrench).
215: 900: 224:is a tool used to tighten and loosen threaded 787: 341: 321:A chain whip tool, wrapped around a sprocket. 61:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 794: 780: 348: 334: 239: 125:Learn how and when to remove this message 14: 901: 203: 157:around it until it firmly grips. High 775: 329: 216:Chain whips (e.g., for bicycle work) 59:adding citations to reliable sources 26: 24: 25: 930: 801: 845: 314: 302: 290: 278: 266: 31: 252:long enough to slide it into a 355: 13: 1: 871:Drivetrain and bottom bracket 236:method, which uses no tools. 183:.) 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