Fixing Vintage Sidepull Bicycle Brakes with My Langley Fifth Hand Tools

How to use my vintage Langley Fifth Hand Brake Tools to retension “dead” springs in old-school sidepull caliper brakes and make them snap open again and feel like new. I invented, made and sold these tools in the early 1980’s and then gave the rights to The Third Hand tool company who sold them after that. #JimLangley #BicycleAficionado #FixYourBike
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Timecodes
0:00 - Catalog copy for my Fifth Hand Tools with tools
0:03 - Not for sale any more and why not
0:04 - Why I made this video about them
0:09 - What the Fifth Hand Tools are for
0:14 - How I made them
0:23 - Dimensions to make your own
0:25 - How to use the tools to fix brakes
1:30 - The fixed brake feels like new again
1:35 - Fixing Weinmann & Dia-Compe brakes
1:48 - The problems with how we did it before the Fifth Hand tools
2:26 - Closing comments
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