Reamers
The holy grail of framebuilder reamers for seat tubes is a solid spiral flute hand or chucking reamer. These are very hard to find in the fractional metric sizes common for seatposts.
Contents
Silva
expensive.
Cyclus Shell Reamers
German bike specific tools. Nice.
The handle costs $81.70 and each shell reamer is another $47.00. Any common size is avaliable. Available throught Bike Tools Etc.
I wish that the reamer was spiral fluted and longer. A longer lead in would also be nicer.
Source for reamers
This is a good one:
KBC Tools & Machinary
1751 Sabre
Hayward, CA 94545
(510) 732-5500
(800) 521-1740
KBCtools.com
Sharpening and Regrinders
I'll be trying these guys at first:
Cliff @
Pacific Reamer & Cutter Service
4115 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
(510) 654-1844
They say that a regrind could be $24 for a chucking reamer $40 for a hand reamer, if they do not have to take too much material off. $55 on my job.
English Hand Reamers
Metric Hand Reamers
Metric Shell Reamers
1:30 Vidia-v Bulgaria.
27.2mm
Probably the most common size seatpost in the industry for steel bikes.
Spiral Flute Chucking Reamers:
Size: Flute Length: OAL: KBC P/N: Price
1-1/16: 2-3/4: 10-1/2: 5-020-295: $37.40 (26.99mm for roughing)
1-3/32: 2-7/8: 11: 5-020-300: $37.40 (27.78mm reground to 27.2 for finishing)
Spiral Flute Hand Reamers:
Size: Flute Length: OAL: KBC P/N: Price
1-1/16: 5-5/8: 11-1/4: 5-010-150: $43.15 (26.99mm for roughing)
1-1/8: 5-13/16: 11-5/8: 5-010-155: $47.65 (28.58mm reground to 27.2 for finishing)
I was told that Toolmex was the supplier for all of these reamers but they turned out to be sourced from Fenes of Poland. Catalog
toolmex helical shell reamers may be good for the next order.
5-155-030 for 1-1/16" $41.00
Bore Polishing
This simple tool is available for cleaning up a bore.
