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John, all, I've been busy fixing a design change that I had tested my normal 100 times but I forgot one test and it turned out to be a very bad idea so I guess I'm going to have steel to eat for a while, lucky for me a good friend found it for me so all is not lost. I'll bet your all sitting scratching your heads and asking your monitor screens"What the hell has that got to do with reamers. Of course nothing but I'm just trying to give John and another Clubmaker an answer as to just why I haven't gotten around to answering their questions. For clubmaking I like to stay away from right hand fluting and go for left handed fluting, if I can not get left handed fluting then my second choice is straight flutes. My reasoning is this 1/ Nobody in this form uses a reamer more than I do unless your a Tool & Die Maker, so my reasoning here is if it's going to scare the shit out of me using one w/out firnly bolting my fixture to the drill table I can just imaging what it's going to do to any one of you when it grabs and you are most likely holding it fairly loose and it gets away from your grasp. 2/ If you use a left hand or a straight fluted reamer the chances of this happening are slim , very slim. 3/ Most tool shops do not really like the left handed reamers, they throw the chip ahead of the reamer and some times the hole comes out just a shade larger then wanted and since 85% of the time the work that is being done is clamped down either to the drill or milling machine table why then even go there. 4/ So most of the time if a tool supply house does have them, in the odd sizes that we use they sell them at a lower cost, like about about a year ago I was able to pick up a batch of .343 LH reamers for about $2.00 ea after S&H which is a great price they normally go for around $9 to $13 ea.i just make sure that i stay on every bodies mailing list even though sometimes I must buy something to remain on it at a small bit higher cost then i would pay from my normal supply house.
RK
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Date: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:08:08 PM
Subject: ShopTalk: Reamer style
Another question for RK:
I read the collection of messages about drill bits and reamers from RK from
a link on clubmaker online, and took away some really good reference
information. What is the correct style of reamer to use for cleaning or
enlarging hosels - the style you would order from a supply house.
John B
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