Tapered reamer, yes again!
 

Hi guys, I'm about ready to ream out my front uprights to take the Maxi ball joints. I know there is a perfectly good reamer available very cheaply from Axminster but what I was thinking was that there must be several of these tools now languishing unloved and unwanted in toolboxes up and down the country. Is there anyone in the west mids who has one and would like to recoup its cost?

If there is one available I shall make it available to another builder after I've done with it.

D.

sounds like a plan, a forum tool...

I need to do mine too..

TT

I thought so, it just seems daft that we're all buying this tool to use it twice then forget it. I know its not an expensive piece of kit but waste irritates me.

D.

if you are over need melton mowbray only about an hour and half from telford just past leicestor in the nead future bring the uprights over and il do them for you in the milling machine... would just lend you the reamer but iv modified it slightly and as a result it can no longer be used by hand

tilly

well i have given out 3 of them now so there should be plenty floating about. cant remember who i gave them to. think Les has got one but I may be wrong.

I bought some drill bits at the same time as the postage was the same/more than the item. It's also useful for cleaning the shroud on the mig welder.

im lucky the shop is only down the road. saves on silly postage costs.

i think us kent boys are spoilt. we have got rally designs, car builder solutions, axminster tools, GKD, Aeon, Hawk, caterham, machine mart, tool station, screwfix on our door step :D

Come on, it's only 3 pounds or so, and still under 10 pounds with shipping to Europe!

Hi Ash try ordering parts from Ireland and the delivery charges often come to more than the part you want

Yeah but I lived in Rochester for year..

We are spoiled up her with fantastic roads, great mountain passes, Super sights and wonderful towns...

I will gladly pay some postage rather than have to suffer the garden of england again ( cos it reminds me of my garden which is utter s.......t :) )

TT

i know what you mean tt. luckily i dont live right in rochester just near it :D

nice and quiet where I am in fact too quiet because the moaner nextdoor keeps moaning at me for making noise :D

lived in central Coventry for 5 years and I would rather be in Kent given the choice :D

Thanks Tilly, I'll bear that in mind if it turns out that no one in west mids has one to pass on. I'm just not likely to be in your neck of the woods anytime soon.

D.

Yes Albert I know its only £3, less than £10 with postage and I could order it today and have it by Thursday but it just seems wasteful for all us builders to be buying our own to use them once. It just seemed that it might be possible for someone who already has one to pass it on to someone else not too far away who could buy it off them for the original price, use it then sell it on to the next builder.

I'm really not that bothered about saving a tenner, I can easily piss more than that up the wall on a Sunday afternoon:D .

D.

I have the Axeminster reamer that Ash sent to me ( foc... owe you a pint Ash ;) )

I,d be happy to post it to anyone that needs it,

cheers
andy:)

Is it the same taper that is needed for the Ford Transit steering link as used in the top wishbone? Using a BMW upright so cant use std mushroom.

Is it the same taper that is needed for the Transit top BJ? As I will need to do the top of the MX-5 uprights.

ooh, not sure, the reamer i have is the one that Ash sent me to do the sierra uprights to accept the maxi ball joints,

its the 19mm one i believe :confused: :o :D

its here if anyone needs to borrow it then send onto the next person etc.

cheers
andy

Cheers Andy, that's the idea:D . if nobody closer to home offers one up in the next day or so I'll take you up on the offer and cover the postage;) . i'll have to check out the thread detailing builders locations and see if there any fairly near by.

D.

Davey....

PM me your address & i,ll get it posted off to you, buy me a doughnut at Stoneleigh ;) :cool:

cheers
andy

All sorted, cheers Andy. When I've done with it I'll post it on to the next user who wants it so anyone who is coming up to needing the reamer post here, first come first served :D .

D.

Let me know when your done and I can get mine reamed...

Take some pics of your work ..

TT

Okay mate you got it, hopefully will all be done by next week:D So I'll send it on if you PM me your address;) .

D.

considering i paid the postage to send it to andy. andy can pay the postage to davey and davey can pay the postge to the next guy. :D

when it fubbared send it back to me and i will get a new one and send it out again :D

Sounds like a plan guys;) , you know it makes sense.

D.

Thats what i said to Davey in PM,s :D

In fact i told Davey that you paid for the item l (and wouldn,t take a payment for it) aswell as the postage so its the least i can do to let someone else make use of it ;) :cool:

cheers
andy

Plan... :)

TT

This forum realy is Gr8 :D

TT

I just love it when a plan comes together:D .

D.

tapered reamer
 

Hi Ash I was thinking if I could send you money if you were passing axminster some time you could pick up a couple of reamers and I could collect them in Stoneligh just to save on postage.If there is a problem I will understand

yeah that's no problem remind me closer to the time.

Ooohh! S t o n e l e i g h D o u g h n u t s hhmmm :D :D :D

spikehaus bought the doenuts last year. They were yummy after 3 days of bbq sausage.

Well the good news is the reamer arrived this morning and I was able to do my uprights this afternoon (perks of working for yourself:p ) so I was able to forward it to Twinturbo this afternoon.

Here's a few photos of my uprights being reamed:

I initially tried to do them "loose" lying on the bench but soon realised the upright needs to be held in a vice or fixture of some description so I removed the brake caliper and disc and clamped it in the vice.

008 shows the Maxi ball joint in the unreamed hole.

009 shows the reamer in the hole, the copper pipe is there simply to make the T bar a more comfortable diameter, not to extend it ( I have sent the copper tube along with the reamer to the next user).

010 shows the depth that the ball joint goes to after reaming, ignore the grubby paw holding it in place, the rubber boot wouldn't let it sit at its lowest.

D.

P.S. the reamer was showing some wear so I gave it a few wipes on a diamond sharpening stone before I did mine and it worked a treat. Please do not turn the reamer backwards as this will ruin the cutting edges.

D.

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Ooops :o

Davey..... sorry for the delay, but glad it did the job for you.

cheers
andy

No sweat mate, it did the job a treat. I wasn't having a go by mentioning that it was showing wear, by the very nature of what it does it will wear away. just thought I'd mention that I'd resharpened it and it worked beautifully. If anyone ever needs to sharpen such a tool use a diamond sharpening stone, it should only need a few wipes to bring it back to "as new" condition.

Thanks for sending it, D.

:) I know you weren,t "having a go" Davey ;)

I was just acknowledging my mistake, that possibly blunted it prematurely :o :D

cheers
andy

recived :)

Will do mine over the weekend hopefully ( if the dishwasher does not pack up again ).

TT

Good show, will the next user of the reamer please make their request here and PM their postal address to TT:D .

D.

Hi guys

If i could put my name down that would be great

Cheers

Mike:)

Finsihed mine off tonight, so will pop it in the post in the next day or so.

Cheers

Rob