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Offline Double D

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Tooling source
« on: March 08, 2008, 04:23:45 AM »
Need a source for  decimal HSS chucking reamers.  Looking for  .457, .459. .461, .463, .465, .467, .469, and .471.

Anybody got a good source?

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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2008, 08:22:08 AM »
Try McMaster-Carr; looks like they have most of your list.  Enter "chucking reamers" in the search box, click the chucking reamers image that appears, and then click the "select inch size" drop down and look through the list.

They aren't going to be cheap; looks like about $28 each.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2008, 11:10:24 AM »
Let  me check with the tool and die folks at work tomorrow.  Should be able to beat McM-C prices.  HHS?  HSS.

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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2008, 04:43:54 PM »
Typical DD Typo  HSS
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2008, 09:17:18 PM »
 You might search Ebay for "adjustable" or "expanding" reamers near the sizes you need. Sometimes they come up dirt cheap.

 I've used the ones with the screw in the end quite a bit. I think the ones I have are made by Cleveland twist drill Co.(?) and the name they use is "Peerless" IIRC.

 I'm sure Enco or Harbor Freight would stock the Chinese equivalent.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2008, 09:38:30 PM »
I am looking for a bit more precision and repeatability than offered by an adjustable reamer.  The project I have in mind is more production than job work.

Enco didn't have them.  Travers use to , but I couldn't find them on their website, except in carbide.  MacMasters Carrs price was just about what I expected to pay.

I have been watching Ebay for some time now with no luck or what appears to be regrinds and questionalble dimensions.  Still watching however.

I have bought some tooling from Harbor Freight past, but never really felt I got a good deal for my money. Cheap yes, reliable no.

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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2008, 07:05:08 AM »
I have lots of stuff but I'm not that up on precise tool terminology.  Will have to look up chucking reamer, Wonder if it is a reamer with a straight shank as opposed to Morse etc.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2008, 09:28:54 AM »
cannonmn -  you got it - it fits into a 3 jaw chuck.

DD - Travers no longer gives the option of specifying the diameter, hence you'd be stuck with fractional sizes.
McM-C of course has them.

Another option:  get a handful of 1/2" reamers at the best price you can then have them reground.

Haven't looked at MSC yet or ENCO.



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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2008, 09:49:50 AM »
>have them reground

mmm, wonder what that'll cost?
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2008, 11:02:56 AM »
Quote from: cannonmn on March 10, 2008, 09:49:50 AM
>have them reground

mmm, wonder what that'll cost?

If you have a lathe all that is needed is a tool post grinder, DD might be able to pick one up on ebay at a reasonable price, that also gives the advantage of making other reamers the size needed in the future.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2008, 12:06:11 PM »
Enco and MSC only listed carbide.   I probably will go  with McMasters-Carr. 

By time I spent the money to buy a toolpost grinder and 1/2 in.  reamers, then taught myself how to regrind reamers,  I could have spent less money to buy the reamer I need and got the project  done made a better profit in less time.  How ever the idea is not with out merit for some other projects I have in mind.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2008, 02:09:50 PM »
I've bought several HSS reamers in the ~.500 range from D&J machinery off ebay. They were used, but looked almost new and still sharp when I got them. Paid about $7 each for them plus shipping.
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2008, 02:18:57 PM »
Quote from: cannonmn on March 10, 2008, 09:49:50 AM
>have them reground

mmm, wonder what that'll cost?

Anywhere there is light manufacturing there will be a wide variety of machine shops that pop up in support of those industries.  I know of several such that I used to deal with when I was a tooling engineer.  The tool & die guys at work know of some others.  It is through the relationships that one has built with these folks that you get the good prices that the volume of your company has generated.

Tool post grinder and an indexing head makes sense too, for me, as I have a number of other related projects.

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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2008, 11:35:48 PM »
there is 2 chinese companies that have very high quality for the money ,
check this out  : 

www.vertex-tw.com.tw 

www.zhengzhoutools.com
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2008, 11:51:41 PM »
sorry forgot to tell you about an b2b site :

www.alibaba.com

there you can search for manufacturers of whatever you want
but be sure its an manufacturer and not an trading company .

since I was retired I have done some importing from china .
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Re: Tooling source
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2008, 12:37:29 AM »
I did an searching for fun at reamer
almost 900 hits   ;D
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