Bike Tool Set in Tool Tray — Hanger Alignment & Cable Pliers (1600SOS21)

A bent derailleur hanger and a stuck cable are two of the most common shop-bench problems, and they happen often enough that the tools to fix them belong on the same drawer slide. The Unior 1600SOS21; Hanger Alignment & Cable Pliers tray; bundles a Hanger Genie 2.0, two cable puller pliers with locking jaws, a ball-end hex wrench, screw pliers, and a dead-blow hammer into a single foam-cut drawer insert sized for the Unior 2600-series carriages.

What’s in the tray

• Hanger Genie 2.0 (1602/5); derailleur-hanger alignment tool, the updated version with improved jaw geometry.
• Cable puller pliers with lock (1642.1/2P-US, qty. 2); locks onto a cable end and holds tension while the bolt is torqued.
• T-handle ball-end hex wrench (193HXS-US); for the angled-fastener access common to derailleur and brake-lever installs.
• Screw pliers (407/4PR); for stuck or rounded screws that won’t release with a driver alone.
• Dead blow hammer (819A-US); non-marring impact, for seated parts that need a tap but not a sharp hit.

The tray ships with the Made for Work label (1843MFW-BIKE TOOLS) and the empty tray shell (vl.1600SOS21); replacement-tray-shell available separately if a tool drops out and the foam needs re-fitting.

Where the 1600SOS21 fits in the system

The 1600SOS21 is one of seven trays in the modular Unior SOS-tray series sized for the bench-mechanic-and-tool-carriage workflow. The full set ships pre-loaded in the Professional Mechanic Tool Carriage; the individual trays are also available standalone for shops building up a custom tray loadout. Companion trays in the series:

• 1600SOS23; Sockets, Ratchets & Torque Wrench
• 1600SOS24; Cone Wrenches
• 1600SOS25; Crank, Cassette & Freewheel Tools
• 1600SOS26; Bottom Bracket, Spoke & Brake Tools
• 1600SOS27; Hex/Torx T-Handles & Screwdrivers

Compatibility

The 1600SOS21 fits the full-width drawer slot in Unior’s tool carriages: Hercules, Eurovision, Eurostyle, Euromotion, and Europlus. The foam-cut tool silhouettes hold each tool in fixed position so a missing tool reads as foam.

Built in Zreče, Slovenia

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče since 1919, and sponsors professional road and mountain-bike race teams. The SOS foam trays and the tools they hold come out of the same in-house manufacturing chain; the foam-to-tool silhouette match is what a generic third-party drawer organizer can’t reproduce.

Pro tip from our mechanics

A hanger-alignment tray is the kind of purchase that doesn’t earn its place on day one but compresses the time-to-fix on the third bent-hanger ticket of the week. Our broader workshop-layout guide covers the tray-by-service-category organization principle the 1600SOS series is built around: How to set up a professional bike workshop →