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Reamers

Reamers are used to produce smooth, accurate bores for shafts, pins, or bolts to fit with a good fit. Reamers are better than drills for this purpose and can produce superior finishes to normal machining. Holes must be undersized before reaming to leave room for material. Different types of reamers exist for different purposes, such as taper reamers for taper bores. Proper lubrication and slow, steady rotation are important for reaming.

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Reamers

Reamers are used to produce smooth, accurate bores for shafts, pins, or bolts to fit with a good fit. Reamers are better than drills for this purpose and can produce superior finishes to normal machining. Holes must be undersized before reaming to leave room for material. Different types of reamers exist for different purposes, such as taper reamers for taper bores. Proper lubrication and slow, steady rotation are important for reaming.

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Reamers and how to use them

GEOMETER describes the processes involved


in using hand and machine reaming

W
HETHER USED ON machine In all reaming, maching or hand,
or by hand, the function rotation is very slow and ample power
of-a reamer is to produce is essential. In hand work, either the
a smooth accurate surface in a component is held in the vice and the
reamer turned with a substantial
bore such as that of a bearing or tap wrench, or the reamer’ is held
bush, for the shaft, pin or bolt to and the component turned-when it is
enter with a very good fit. a size and shape permitting proper
In this respect, a reamer is a much leverage.
better tool than a drill and can also Rotating slowly, the reamer or
produce finishes superior to normal component is advanced and, should
machining on lathes. In fact, bores swarf clog the flutes, withdrawal is
machined on lathes are often finished made,. but maintaining the same
with reamers to improve the surface direction of rotation, since a reamer
and bring them to size. must not be turned backwards. If
Holes to be reamed must be drilled possible, it should pass through the
or machined undersize, the amount bore-to admit of which, it has an
of material left depending on the undersize shank.
roughness of the surface. For a Should chatter occur in the early
smooth surface and true hole, be- stages, a strip of thin shimstock down
tween 0.001 in. and 0.002 in. is ample the flutes one side will often cause
to leave in reaming parallel bores. the reamer to cut smoothly. Before
Excess material means extra work and finishing, the shimstock must be is for opening out drilled holes to
in some cases can cause the reamer to removed, or the result will be an take taper pins-as when a collar
chatter and the surface to become oversize hole. Different thicknesses is pinned to a shaft, the pin then
wavy. Bushes fitted in housings of shimstock afford, however, a driving in firmly. A machine reamer
compress on entering and must be means of utilising worn reamers and E has short normal cutting blades,
reamed to size. producing holes of required size or an axial slit and a coned central
oversize. screw for adjusting with a pin-
Oil can be used as a lubricant on spanner to regulate the size.
steel, silver-steel, phosphor-bronze, Reamers slightly dulled on the
brass and gunmetal ; paraffin on cutting edges can be sharpened with
aluminium and duralumin ; tallow hand hones F, rubbing along the
and graphite in equal parts on cast- flutes and the relief edges. When
iron. undersize,. shimstock can be used to
increase diameter-obtainable in thick-
Types of reamers nesses from 0.0015 in. upwards.
An ordinary hand reamer A h a s
straight or left-hand spiral flutes, Reaming blind bushes
to prevent self-advance in the bore.
The diameter may be parallel, though Bushes in blind holes (certain king-
normally it is slightly tapered from pins) present a problem, for the taper
the end for entering. Adjustable on a reamer prevents finishing to the
reamers are provided with six blades end for the pin to go right home. Such
regulated by nuts on the threaded bushes must either be brought to size
shanks. before fitting, or specially finished
A line reamer B has two sets of in situ.
cutting edges to ensure correct align- If a lathe is available? a reaming
ment of separate bores-such as the jig G is made from two pieces of steel
kingpin fittings of car stub axles. A in the four-jaw chuck, with a bore
taper reamer C is for finishing or the size of that in the component-
adjusting taper bores in sprockets obtained by calipering. A shouldered
(motorcycle) or small pulleys. Use screw into the oil hole prevents
in a lathe ensures true-running of the rotation. In reaming, the bush is
sprocket or pulley. compressed in the vice, and brought
A taper broach D, which has a to fitted size for the pm when in the
scraping rather than a cutting action, component.
29 DECEMBER 1955 997 MODEL ENGINEER

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