PS-1 Disc Brake Pad Spreader

A must have tool for the home bike mechanic. I used mine to spread my calipers for new pads...maybe not what it is intended for, but it worked. It did not bend out of shape and it is very simple to use. decently priced for a Park tool named tool too.

Park Tools makes good products and this one does the job perfectly.

I was using the widest flat screwdriver in my toolbox before to depress the pistons into their cylinders, and I can tell you it takes a lot of precision to depress a piston with a force applied to its exact centre, or otherwise the piston refuses to move. Park Tool is known for their bike service tools, and this piston spreader is so much easier to use. It's well worth is price, as spreading pistons is what you have to do every time when replacing thin and worn brake pads with the thick, new ones. You may even afford a luxury of carefully pushing the pistons out to clean their side surface, something I tried to avoid, as a simple screwdriver is a very unwieldy instrument for pushing the pistons back into cylinders. Get it, you'll love changing your brake pads with it! There are quite a few instruction videos on YouTube on the correct use of the tool, including some from Park Tools themselves. Note that the tool is specific to hydraulic brakes; you don't need it if your disk brakes are cable-operated, like, for example, a lower-grade Tiara disk brake and some other types. It's specifically designed for hydraulically operated brake pistons.

Perfect for its intended use, good quality, nice handle.

Just good and dun it's job!

For some reason there are dozens of tools that claim to spread brake pads, and I'm betting most or all of them work. This is a wheel that has been re-invented many, many times. But this light, durable, one-piece spreader does the trick. It's very easy and logical to use. You just stick it between the brake pads and spread them apart. Very simple, and i love that it's just one device, not a combination of devices like those plastic wedges. Oh, and this will never break.

good tool to have in the bike repair tool box if you have a disk breaks bicycle. when the break pad got stick together, nothing will do till you try this tool. work as described and very easy to prey open the pads and put the wheel back on. after all, who wants to stuck in the forage all day to fix breaks? let's ride!

Very useful tool for spreading my 4 cylinder brake cylinders for new brake pads. I had been using screwdrivers and wrenches before using this. While screwdrivers and wrenches work, this allows the brake cylinders to be spread even only.