9.7mm hand reamer
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9.7mm hand reamer
Hi,
if anyone has a 9.7mm hand reamer they would sell for a reasonable price or loan to me for a week or so then do please send me a PM.
Many thanks
if anyone has a 9.7mm hand reamer they would sell for a reasonable price or loan to me for a week or so then do please send me a PM.
Many thanks
Richard
Re: 9.7mm hand reamer
Richard,
Do you mean a 9.7 mm reamer or a 3/8" one?
I have the latter you can borrow.
Tony
Do you mean a 9.7 mm reamer or a 3/8" one?
I have the latter you can borrow.
Tony
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Re: 9.7mm hand reamer
These folk may be able to help - if not in stock they can sourse it for you.
www.tracytools.com
I know the problem - forking out many £s for a one job tool!
Frank
www.tracytools.com
I know the problem - forking out many £s for a one job tool!
Frank
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Re: 9.7mm hand reamer
Thanks for the suggestion - one of my first searches actually.
Needed to have a bespoke reamer made for me - plenty available off the shelf from China etc but didn't want the obvious risks to say nothing about keeping my purchases from UK sources where possible.
Needed to have a bespoke reamer made for me - plenty available off the shelf from China etc but didn't want the obvious risks to say nothing about keeping my purchases from UK sources where possible.
Richard
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Re: 9.7mm hand reamer
I assume you'd thought of 3/8" and after using first for that size, then raising the lands with a file drawn along the lands to get the extra 3 thou. radius.
Might be worth turnng up a spot on plug gauge carefully polished on a lathe to check the final bore, or of course if suitable, the actual item that goes in your 9.7 mm bore ???
Might be worth turnng up a spot on plug gauge carefully polished on a lathe to check the final bore, or of course if suitable, the actual item that goes in your 9.7 mm bore ???
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Re: 9.7mm hand reamer
Mike,
I didn't want to bore you - ouch!! - with the details but I'm working in a very confined space changing a fastener from a high tolerance 3/8" AN176 to 10mm ground shouldered bolt; not a wing pin exactly but something similar.
Hand reaming when fitting the 3/8" fasteners worked well using a ratcheted ring spanner to turn the reamer smoothly in 1/4 turn increments through in-line 4130 bushes. The challenge has been to obtain reamers that allow me to ream further to 10mm. It is work in progress but today I got a lucky break after a bad start.
The initial set-back was discovering that the bespoke 9.7mm reamer I was depending upon turned out to be a parallel machine reamer, rather than a hand reamer which has a slightly tapered lead. And anyway there was insufficient space for a chuck to grasp the shank.
There was an unexpected break-through when a 'new 40 yr old stock' reamer with an impenetrable MOD code instead of a simple diameter that I had bought for a modest price from ebay as a '9.9mm' hand reamer turned out to be 9.75mm (unless my micrometer has thrown a wobbly) with a 9.3mm initial lead. How lucky can one be !!
I'm expecting to be able to use this reamer followed by a standard 10mm hand reamer. We shall see!!
Thanks to respondents for taking helpful interest
I didn't want to bore you - ouch!! - with the details but I'm working in a very confined space changing a fastener from a high tolerance 3/8" AN176 to 10mm ground shouldered bolt; not a wing pin exactly but something similar.
Hand reaming when fitting the 3/8" fasteners worked well using a ratcheted ring spanner to turn the reamer smoothly in 1/4 turn increments through in-line 4130 bushes. The challenge has been to obtain reamers that allow me to ream further to 10mm. It is work in progress but today I got a lucky break after a bad start.
The initial set-back was discovering that the bespoke 9.7mm reamer I was depending upon turned out to be a parallel machine reamer, rather than a hand reamer which has a slightly tapered lead. And anyway there was insufficient space for a chuck to grasp the shank.
There was an unexpected break-through when a 'new 40 yr old stock' reamer with an impenetrable MOD code instead of a simple diameter that I had bought for a modest price from ebay as a '9.9mm' hand reamer turned out to be 9.75mm (unless my micrometer has thrown a wobbly) with a 9.3mm initial lead. How lucky can one be !!
I'm expecting to be able to use this reamer followed by a standard 10mm hand reamer. We shall see!!
Thanks to respondents for taking helpful interest
Richard