Subject: Re: Bib seat reamer or dresser

From: stewart cooper <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:37:15 -0300

ERich10983 wrote:
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> I recently helped a friend clean out his fathers home.  Along with useful
> goodies from Starett and other brands was a small tool in the origional
> box was a Keystone Bibb seat reamer.  Its about 2 inches long, 1 1/2
> inches dia for the large diameter, tapering to 1/2 inch at the small dia.
> It has an external and internal spiral thread.  Its hollow to receive a
> shaft that has one of four rosette cutters screwed on the end.  What is
> this thing?    Earleit sounds like a valve seat reamer for engine heads with none hardend 
seats,the type of head used before unleaded gas .I think. My father has 
a set and I think they are made by keystone. Does it have a piot to fit 
in the valve stem bore?

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From: [email-masked] (Carl)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 02:55:43 GMT

>a set and I think they are made by keystone. Does it have a piot to fit 

   It sounds like what you may have there is a tool used to reseat faucet
bodies, (hose bibs). 

   These are used to "mill" the area down inside of an outside type faucet, that
the washer seats against.  If a faucet is allowed to leak the seat will be
damaged an it will need refacing.  The tapered, (usually stepped) part is used
to locate the main shaft in the center of the valve stem bore, and the rosettes
are actually a type of end mill.

   BTW these are seldom used any more because, as with so many things now days,
it is usually cheaper to replace a faucet than to repair it.

                                                         Carl Grinnell
                                                         [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (ERich10983)
Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:28:18 -0400

this thing?    Earle