Reamer regrind

[rebel107]

Thanks guys

 

[Edd]

Ya ever machined sharpie marker off of steel, without cutting steel?

It's much easier to use a towel dampened with B12.

 

[ELR LVR]

It's much easier to use a towel dampened with B12.

Its one of the ways I practiced before
Like TIG welding 2 razor blades together when I used to run a Welding business.
Every weld bead I ran, i set out to make it smoother, more uniform and more even than the last one
For Over 15 years, thats a lot of weld beads, and even if each one only improved microscopically, it's still a process of perfecting ones craft or skillset, right?
(Never did weld an aluminum can together but still practiced it with an Aerowave)
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It's just the standards and expectations I uphold myself to
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If something can be done better, then do it better
Do it right, or not at all.
If something can be done "Perfect" then do it perfect, Why not?
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I don't like to settle for mediocrity
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There is a reason we pay for things like SWISS MADE
or GERMAN ENGINEERING
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It's a pride in our work type of thing for me
Some might call me a perfectionist, Sue me, I haven't found where that's against the law
I believe that's better than doing something half @$$ed
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I don't believe anybody should Mfgr anything and simply call it "good enough" but charge the same as others who put out the highest quality, fit, finish, tolerance etc.
Scopes might be a good example of this
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Let me provide another quick example of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!
I was out at the shootin range, and testing one of my customized 22 BR's
and another guy was there shooting his, home built something or other
he see's my groupings and we get to talking and we both find we each have a lathe and do our gun work etc
And I start laying out tolerances of my rig and things like custom reamers etc
--- And he stops me and says
"You must have your Lathe set up on Concrete then huh?"
My mouth dropped and I ended the convo right there.
(I mean there's ppl who think that just because they simply "OWN" a lathe, that they're a qualified gunsmith)
Not to discouragve anyone from hobby work or learning but, just, I can't even relate conversatioanlly with someone who purposely insists to stay in that realm
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and back to Topic, yeah I'd love to be making Reamers for people and start taking orders, if I had the equipment.

 

[FireMedic]

I'm with you and do the same thing. I'll do a little extra pre-boring on 5R's and use a pilot. Everything else I leave it off - it makes the flush work a lot better.

Ever thought of getting 5 flute reamers in the common chamberings?

I buy 5 flute reamers for all the common stuff I do. I will say to be careful when starting them into a prebored hole. They have a tendency to want to chatter more then the same reamer in a 6 flute. These I’ll taper bore to give the reamer some side support when they start to cut. It’s mainly on the improved cases with 40deg shoulders that cause problems.

I had a 6mm recently I did for a customer that had a .225 freebore and it went in a 5r. I bored the lands to the end of the neck, but it still gave some pushoff in the throat. The longer freebores and smaller diameter reamers are the worst. They just flex a lot more.

How much a couple tenths of pushoff in the throat matters, I’m not sure. I know we all want it to be as perfect as possible.