Hey, welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today we're going to discuss reamers.
So let's get started.
So I have two different types of reamers here. I have a reamer
set and I have what they call a fast reamer.
The difference between these two reamers-this is a half inch
to three quarter inch reamer and this one is a fast reamer.
You can see the flutes are tighter together and you can tell the
fast reamer not only by the flutes, but the
fast reamer has this stopper on the end.
This is what they call a standard reamer.
If I show you these together, you
can see the difference in the flutes; the spacing of the flutes.
The fast reamer is obviously faster to cut through metal and to achieve your reamed (widened) hole.
They also call these car reamers.
They can ream through basically any type of steel or metal.
You can see that the standard reamer does not have that stopper that the fast reamer has.
That's how you can see the difference between the two reamers.
These reamers also have the three cuts on the shank
so they don't spin in your drill.
So we're going to test these reamers.
Before I test them, I have a set here that I'm just going to go over with you.
These are US made. These are Norseman-Viking reamers.
You can buy them in a case.
They go from 3/8" of an inch all the way up to three-quarters.
So you have a 3/8", a 1/2", 5/8", and 3/4".
The sizes I'm giving to you is the maximum that they can ream.
These are USA-made, high-speed steel.
They have three flutes.
They're designed to ream structural steel plates on cars, trucks, frames, rails, or bridges.
Reamers are used to enlarge, form or drilled holes.
Left hand spiral, right to hand cut.
These shanks-or I'm sorry, drill surfaces are about five
and a half inches long on the three quarter.
Obviously as you go smaller down to 3/8,
this is probably about three inches long overall.
So let's give it a whirl and see what we get.
So I pre-drilled a half-inch hole for the reamer for this demonstration.
You can see it comes through the other side.
This is what the manufacturer recommends,
starting at a half-inch for a three-quarter-inch reamer.
I'm going to
now put a little lubricant on the bit.
It's always good to use lubricant.
Let's your reamers and bits last a lot longer;
give it life so you don't have to buy another one for a while.
This is my first time reaming this so it might get stuck a little bit, I don't know.
We're going to see how this goes.
I'm running this battery drill in the first speed only
and I'm going to try it in the second speed also.
So let's test it out now.
Yeah baby. That is one cool bit.
This is the fast reamer. You can see, it
has that stopper and the swirls are
tighter together and-that's what you don't want to do.
Alright. I'm going to bring the camera around so you can see the hole that I reamed out.
As you can see here I reamed this hole out to 3/4".
I started that hole; it was a pre-drilled hole at
half inch and I brought it a little larger than three-quarters as you can see there.
I twisted it a little bit.
You also saw the drill bit bind in there and then fly out of my hands.
That's one thing you have to be cautious about because that does hurt, it hurts the wrist.
That's our video and our demonstration on this half-inch to three-quarter fast reamer.
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