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RE: Adjustable reamers

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Subject: RE: Adjustable reamers
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:29:19 -0800
> I've had a set of Indian-made adjustable reamers in my shop
> for a decade or more. I don't know about Eastwood's, but
> mine are not a hand tool - they are only suitable for use in
> a properly set up workpiece in a reasonably rigid machine tool
> (milling machine or lathe, depending on what you're doing).

Yours must be better made than my Indian set then ... I wouldn't call mine
suitable for use under any circumstances except dire need.  Perhaps it's
just because my machine tools aren't rigid enough to take a cut on just one
blade and keep any kind of reasonable accuracy.

Randall






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