Machine reamers

Machine reamers

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8 January 2020 at 17:40 #445324
Matt Stevens 1
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Hi All,

Where is a good place to buy imperial machine/chucking reamers? I looked at the likes of RDG tools and Tracy tools and they seems to mainly sell hand reamers (hence have a taper). I would like a set of reamers that i can use either with collets or with a chuck and hence i will avoid morse taper reamers….but most impartantly is that i want to ream blind holes!

PS, i am in Canada so local (well priced) Canadian suppliers are perfect, but i find this kind of thing normally comes from the UK.
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8 January 2020 at 17:40 #27054
Matt Stevens 1
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8 January 2020 at 17:44 #445327
Neil Wyatt
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All my machine reamers are on Morse Tapers, I think you will find chucking ones harder to find.

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8 January 2020 at 17:48 #445328
Matt Stevens 1
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Yes that is what i am finding…..my mill is R8 so i could get an R8 to Mt1/2/3 arbor but i figured that was just a pain.

I wonder why chucking reamers are less common?
8 January 2020 at 17:51 #445331
Thor 🇳🇴
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Hi Matt,

I assume you are looking for reamers like these, imperial sizes I guess.

ArcEurotrade has chucking reamers – both metric and imperial.

Thor
8 January 2020 at 18:04 #445340
John Purdy
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Matt

I'm in BC and I get mine from either KBC Tools (KBCTools.ca) or Travers Tools (traverscanada.com). Both have Canadian warehouses and are reasonably priced. They both have large free catalogues.

John
8 January 2020 at 18:59 #445351
Neil Wyatt
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Posted by Matt Stevens 1 on 08/01/2020 17:48:08:

Yes that is what i am finding…..my mill is R8 so i could get an R8 to Mt1/2/3 arbor but i figured that was just a pain.

I wonder why chucking reamers are less common?

Because it makes it easy to hold them with the accuracy that gives their best although there are 'floating' reamer chucks which are ideal and can even be used with dodgy drill presses.

Neil
8 January 2020 at 19:13 #445355
Baz
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Drill Service Horley have every reamer you could imagine, in HSS or Carbide. Not the cheapest around but they are amongst the best. No connection except as a very satisfied customer.
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