Ordered a crank extractor. Both of mine have mushroomed at the tip and the last time I used one of them it damaged the end of the thread on the botttom bracket i was whipping out to find a size to order a new one. The BB went back in with a different crank bolt that could reach past the damaged thread.
Of course this was all back in 2015 and the cassette, chain, chain rings, bottom bracket and everything else are still in the boxes they came in
In all that time all I needed to really do was take the extractor to work and I could have lathed the tip and made a new end but of course now we're not at work. Which is why I've got time to do the above maintenance.
Anyway I was going to get a Park Tools one but it either seems to be out of stock or twice the price once you add postage compared to the BBB one I went for. I know I know, buy cheap buy twice but I've got the impression from
somewhere that BBB tools aren't bad. We shall see.
And as to whether I'll
finally change the drive train that's all worn gracefully into each other anytime soon we shall also see.