This tool allows you to safely deck the hub mating faces on the Mezzer fork lowers. From my testing, decking these surfaces just until the paint is removed provides the lowest sliding friction. This suggests that Manitou fixtures the lowers to cut the bushing bores before they are painted.
It doesn't look like much in the photo, but this
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works great
Did the job. Might be yet another specialty bike tool I use once, but it made a super draggy, binding fork come alive, so glad somebody takes the time to make tools like this.
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J · May 8, 2026
Nicely made tool. Suggestion for refinement: print a hex socket on the opposite side of the sanding surface, to allow use of an electric tool to rotate that sanding surface (carefully)