"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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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.

I thought boring and honing were fairly bad for leaving bell mouthed holes
(although they're certainly round)? Not to say it's impossible to get a
correct profile with a boring or honing tool, but they're not exactly
perfect.

Regards,

Robin