Review on 🔧 8MILELAKE Professional Brake Caliper Winding Tool by Tyrell Rike

I have been working on cars, trucks and motorcycles for 53 years. I'm also what you might call a tool freak. I love well made instruments. I have so many tools that people are overwhelmed when they enter my shop. Surprisingly I don't have a single tool kit, this is a caliper piston compressor kit. Simply because I never needed it. I've done more braking work over the years that I could count, but most of the time the caliper piston doesn't need to rotate when it's pushed into the caliper and I just use a quick-release C-clamp or rod clamp to do it. In fact, I still do this for calipers that don't require piston rotation because it's faster and more efficient than using such a tool. (Nothing to assemble, almost no threads to turn (quick action) etc. A few had to be turned on the pistons but I was able to turn the piston makeshift but it was a little painful. But I'll do it soon on two brake jobs, which required turning the caliper piston I used this as an excuse to add another set of tools to my collection.I have just received this set and am very impressed.I am very surprised by a few of these reviews saying their set had soft metal parts that flexed. Only thing I can think of is that their set was from another manufacturer and maybe their T-handle and push pin (threaded part) like and many metal were cheap tools from before 10's or 20's years because every part in my kit is made of good quality thick steel.The carving is smooth and precise.I haven't used the tools yet but I have studied them carefully rt and recognized the good ones. tools when I see them. These are good tools, there's just no way the stop bolt will break or the T-handles will bend. In addition, the blown body comes into its own very well. I was watching a video of someone using a similar set and he was struggling to keep the butt adapter on the pressure pin assembly. It kept falling. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that this tool has a magnetic base that accepts adapters. Adapters hold tight and won't fall off. As I mentioned earlier, there was a time when so many cheap tools, cast iron or otherwise, were made so cheaply that they were practically useless if not dangerous. But luckily, those times are over. Of course there are still some cheap tools on the market, but they are much rarer these days. I started my huge collection of tools in the 1960's. Especially in the 1970's I expected to pay over $100 (in 1970's dollars) for a set of tools of this type and quality. These days the prices can be amazing. You just have to be careful when buying tools. I paid less than $22 for this toolkit with free shipping and no tax! If you would have told me 30 or 40 years ago that I could do this, I would have thought you were crazy. Conclusion: This is very valuable, assuming you have the same set as me. Many products today look the same, but sometimes they come from different manufacturers, so you may not get the same thing I did. But if you do, you should be very lucky.