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Why does nobody talk about how much a $12 headset press saves your wrists
I put off buying one for ages and was just tapping cups in with a block of wood and a hammer like a caveman. Finally grabbed a cheap one off a guy clearing out his shop in Tacoma and did four frames in one afternoon with zero cussing. Cups went in straight the first time on all of them, which never happens with the hammer trick. What's the one small tool you kept putting off that ended up being worth every penny?
Bought a cheap chain tool years ago and felt like an idiot for waiting. I had been using a punch and hammer to push pins out, which worked maybe half the time and messed up the chain the other half. First time I used the actual tool the pin slid right out smooth as butter. Twenty bucks well spent.