Is the Ice Toolz head tube facing tool any cop?

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  • Has anyone used one of these?

    http://www.wheelies.co.uk/p37722/Ice-Toolz-Headtube-Reaming--Facing-Tool.aspx

    Is it up to the job? Can't justify a Park one but I have all the other tools I need to fit headsets so it would be quite useful.

  • From what I've seen, Ice Toolz are fairly low end. You should really be asking yourself how often you'll be using it, and how often it'll be 'mission critical'. If you think it's something you'll use twice in 10 years, then go cheap. If you need this thing to perform everyday, or every week -- you're going to want to find the best piece of kit you can afford.

    Anyway, this is what I consider whenever buying tools. I'd rather just get the job done by someone else if I think the investment in a tool isn't going to pay for itself. In an ideal world the 'teach a man to fish' thing would apply, but there are some jobs that barely ever come up and I'd have to say that reaming/facing a head tube might be one of them. Or maybe I'm a mere plebeian who has not but dipped his toe in the ocean of bike mechanicking.

  • Yeah, that's about the size of it. I've bought enough duff tools that I now default to Park, but I can't justify the Park one for the number of times I'll be doing this particular job.

    No matter! To the bike shop.

  • I, personally, would be too scared of FUBAR'ing the frame with a cheap tool.

  • If you're going to do it, do it right.

    Although the amount of use a tool will get is one consideration, it ignores the fact that cheap tools can wreck components first time out.

    Considering the importance of the job and the possible consequences, I'd want the best tool available even if I only used it once.

    That might be Park Tool; I'm pretty sure it won't be Ice Toolz.

  • http://www.framebuilding.com/best%20quality.htm

    rafa - esque

    nice but pricey
    have a few cyclus tools and they feel really nicely put together well engineered and long lasting

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