You will like the wrench you have selected but I would recommend this set from Harbor Freight:
http://www.harborfreight.com/
For $35 you get four larger sizes also.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Whitneyville, CT
>
\r?\n> Like Phil, I've been using a 12 point 10mm offset box wrench for years, and
\r?\n> it works OK, (definitely better than the dedicated Campy wrench, which is
\r?\n> useless IMHO), but still not great.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Several people have previously mentioned using a flex-head ratcheting box w
\r?\n> rench, and it sure sounds like that would be the ideal tool for the Record
\r?\n> post. I've tracked one down from Sears, but before I order it, I was w
\r?\n> ondering if there are better choices. This is the one from Sears:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> http://www.sears.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ray Dobbins
\r?\n> Miami Florida USA
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Phil Brown wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> From: Phil Brown
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Putting the Record seatpost on a diet
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 11:39 PM
\r?\n>
\r?\n> On Oct 13, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > Personally, I never particularly liked the Record two-bolt post or its
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > clon
\r?\n> > es. They are a real pain to install a saddle on, what with reaching
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > unde
\r?\n> > r the saddle with the wrench and all. I much prefer the Simplex
\r?\n> post
\r?\n> > or
\r?\n> > a Brooks seat clamp or a one bolt later Campy post, where the bolts
\r?\n> > are act
\r?\n> > ually accessible. The one thing you can say for a Campy Record post
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > is t
\r?\n> > hat once you have the saddle properly installed, you can make tiny
\r?\n> > adjustme
\r?\n> > nts, thus its moniker as "microadjusting". I guess one theory
\r?\n> about
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > the
\r?\n> > popularity of the Record post In The Day is the same as for a
\r?\n> lot of
\r?\n> > other Campy gear, i.e. it was what Eddy Merckx used. Eddy, of
\r?\n> course,
\r?\n> > pr
\r?\n> > obably because of his back problems, was constantly messing with
\r?\n> his
\r?\n> > sad
\r?\n> > dle position, so the micro adjusting Campy post was perfect for him,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > his po
\r?\n> > or mechanics, of course, having had the task of setting the damn thing
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > up i
\r?\n> > n the first place.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I've been using a Snap On 12 point 10mm offset box wrench for years and
\r?\n>
\r?\n> never have a problem.
\r?\n> Phil Brown
\r?\n> Nice tonight in Berkeley, Calif.