Park Tool Magnetic Parts Bowl - MB-1

Dan Bishop

Posted on May 23, 2017

Avg. ride time: 4m per week

much needed in the shop

• Familiarity: I've used it several times

Every mechanic truly requires a way of managing the various screws and parts while working on the bicycle. One of these bowls holds a surprising amount of screws and parts all while maintaining its extremely strong magnetic current. It keeps everything together and mitigates losing materials. The design is so that If you’re using a Park Tool metal stand, you can just attach the bowl to the stand itself and it becomes incredibly more practical in non-wasted space.

MaggieGearhead

Posted on April 3, 2017

Works

Nice magnetic bowl. It sits on my workbench and holds nuts, bolts, etc as listed in the description.

dv8zen

Posted on August 18, 2011

Cheap construction

I found this useful, but since the magnetic base and the plate are not permanently attached, there were times I tried picking it up by the plate and the plate broke free of the base and all the parts sitting in it went flying. Looks like it's held by glue + the magnet. If you put the tray on any magnetic surface that is at least as wide as the base where you can't pick it up at the base, without sliding it off, then this is a hassle. On top of all that, the magnetic effect has strong spots and weak spots in the tray. There's like a narrow ring of where it's strong (from the edge of the center plateau to the park tool logo's sprocket), leaving the center very weak and anything outside of the center plateau with no magnetic effect (which is would be handy if the magnet effect was strong at all, for rolling off the parts). Also, it's not recommended for placing on top of repair stands at a slope... the magnet is just too weak.

Not surprising, considering the cost of this product, but I at least hoped Park wouldn't put their name on junk. Park has a very wide range of tools, for sure, but for certain smaller individual tools, I'm finding that the design and quality Pedro's and Wheelsmith tools and the affordability of other more affordable brands are preferable over Park more and more lately. Their non-everyday tools seem to be spot on though, from their BB extractor tools, to their truing stand.

Perry Hall

Posted on January 17, 2011

Helps prevent runaway parts

This thing is great, it helps protect runaway nuts/bolts, Skewer springs, ball bearings, etc. Great part is it sticks to the side of my tool box, and I can stick it to my car in the parking lot of a race/ride and not loose parts into the dirt.

hippyhoof

Posted on November 11, 2009

nice

sits on top of repair stand, great for holding all those nuts, bolts, washers etc.. while working.