Greetings and Salutations...

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:01:37 -0800, "Harold & Susan Vordos"
wrote:


"Dave Mundt" wrote in message
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In a slightly more serious mode...yea...reamers are really
useful. They are the tools that we use to make VERY precise, round
holes in metal.

You apparently have never honed a reamed hole. The typical reamed hole is
scarcely qualified to be considered precise, let alone VERY precise.
I'll agree that a well reamed hole is drastically improved over the typical
drilled hole, however. Reamed holes are a distant second to properly
bored holes and aren't even in the running when compared to honed bores.
Reamers are notorious for generating multi-sided holes with bell mouthed
conditions.

Harold


This is true, I have not. my real experience is mostly in the
area of cleaning up morse tapers in lathes, and, sizing mounting
holes through (relatively) thin sheet.
However, I am always interested in learning more subtleties
and tricks to make machining metal easier and better...and I suspected
this thread would cause a few of those to come out from under the
rocks.
More information is better than less!
Regards
Dave Mundt