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IB17: Park Tool shows new pro, shop tools, including JIS screwdrivers!

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One would think Park Tool has all the bases covered, but their assortment of new tools shows how they keep improving existing models and adding or updating to keep up with changing bikes and components.

Above, the T-handle hex and Torx wrenches get new wall mounts, and there’s a small hammer for, well, best to let Park’s Calvin Jones explain:

The MWR-SET ratcheting metric wrenches make quick work of nuts and bolts with a two-way, reversible ratchet on the other end of an open wrench.

The SBS socket sets come in a few collections, but the biggest news is the flat-faced socket set (SKT-6) to fit have very short caps on the air chamber and are easily stripped with standard sockets.

Fitting new external bottom bracket removal tools are flippable to cover Wheels Mfr., FSA, Chris King, Praxis, Enduro, and White Industries.

The PRS 22.2 is a running update to the team workstand introduced last year, adding a quick axle swap setup to make it easier to go between standard and thru axles.

…and for when your team wins, the right tool makes celebrations easier.

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lop
lop
6 years ago

After years of pretending that it wasn’t needed, Park finally makes a JIS screwdriver, and has the audacity to charge $35 for it.

A Vessel JIS costs $9.95, and a pack of 4 Hozan JIS screwdrivers is $20

DJ
DJ
6 years ago
Reply to  lop

Amazon has the Park JIS set of 4 for $18, with free shipping if part of a $25 or more order.

lop
lop
6 years ago
Reply to  DJ

There is no such thing as what you just described. Those are regular ISO screwdrivers, and MSRP for their new JIS screwdriver is $35.

myke2241
6 years ago
Reply to  lop

I think these are also US made. I could be wrong but if true I don’t mind shelling out some extra cash to support my fellow comrades

boom
boom
6 years ago
Reply to  myke2241

if this Park tool is made in the US, it would be their first hand tool

lop
lop
6 years ago
Reply to  boom

Yeah, as far as I know, Park hasn’t made a hand tool in America in decades.

Park Tool
6 years ago
Reply to  boom

The new JIS screwdriver are made in the USA as well as 85% of our products.

dl
dl
6 years ago
Reply to  myke2241

QBP doesn’t list it as imported, FWIW.

lop
lop
6 years ago
Reply to  dl

In the QBP catalog, literally every single Park Tool screwdriver is listed as “Imported”.

dl
dl
6 years ago
Reply to  lop

Check the online catalogue. TL5322

Park Tool Co.
6 years ago
Reply to  myke2241

Just to clear a few things up….We at Park Tool manufacture 80% of our parts in the U.S. and most of those in our home state of Minnesota. Our original screwdrivers are indeed imported but the DSD-2 and DSD-4 are made in the U.S. Check out these videos: facebook.com/parktool/videos/1662037250504221/
Factory Tour: youtu.be/BpfFKB-C6aQ

mr. serious
mr. serious
6 years ago
Reply to  myke2241

Made in the USA. Fellow comrades. I see what you did there.

Chase
Chase
6 years ago

JIS 1/4″ bits are available from Motion Pro for $3 a pair in 2 sizes. Combine with a Wiha driver and you are way ahead.

Ben
Ben
6 years ago

You know you can just grind the point off a pozidrve to make a JIS driver.

CF
CF
6 years ago

Growing up with a father who was a Snap-On dealer I can say with utmost confidence Park tools are of the lowest grade and massively overpriced.

i
i
6 years ago

Park finally offers JIS screwdrivers, I guess to celebrate Shimano finally getting rid of them.

jay ceejay cee
jay ceejay cee
6 years ago
Reply to  i

jLOl, yeah it is kind of odd that they are finally offering a jis screwdriver and Shimano is essentially abandoning that standard on their derailleurs.

slackers
slackers
6 years ago

+1 for accepting additional cost for made in US stuff. Companies like Park are resisting the temptation to send all the manufacturing overseas. The result is a better tool.

Tom in MN
Tom in MN
6 years ago
Reply to  slackers

Yes, you will always end up regretting buying a cheap tool. And it’s not just the manufacturing it’s also the raw material (tool steel etc) quality that is involved.

Similarly you should always buy the set and not a single tool, but that is much harder to stick to.

Dave Erdgon
Dave Erdgon
6 years ago
Reply to  slackers

BS! That’s the same american nationalist crap attitude that nearly lead to the dwath of our entire auto industry. Stupid consumers blindly buying junk simply because it was american made or blindly assuming american made translates into higher quality. Go tour a siz sigma semi automated factory in the far east and then tour one in the US. It’s a joke how outdated and far behind most of our so called factories are. Our factory lines are lined mostly with guys with GED’s, while their factories are lined with people with technical college degrees willing to work 10-15 hours per day. The plain truth is the outsourced stuff manufactured in the far east with US designs are by and large superior products to similar competitive products produced in our antiquated US factories. Go take a look at some of the crap Bondhus for example is currently producing in the USA. Not anywhere near the quality from just 10 years ago. Buying a product simply because it is made in a certain nation is moronic at best and flat out dangerous economically long run. And if you actually think buying something made in america is going to magically bring back manufacturing jobs that have been lost foreveer you are a fools fool. Go take a good look at most of the current US homes being built across the nation. Mostly junk and cheap slap stick construction with some shiny stainless steel appliances added to put some lipstick on the shoddy built pig that lies underneath. American products are superior? Haha, yeah right, maybe three decades ago they were comrade, but they have by and large not been for a long time. 🙂

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