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John, a reamer will remove .03125 worth of material with out any trouble. A normal tapered tip head at it's smallest dim. is .354. So if you wanted to open it up to .375 it would do the job with ease. .354 + .03125 = .385 well w/in the alloted amount.
Now as to types and styles of reamers to purchase. I use a chucking reamer with a left hand twist. The reason being with the normal right hand twist you can, you would really have to be a real screw up, tends to dig into the material were as with a left hand twist you would be pushing the chip downwards. A bridgeing reamer is just that you build bridges with them. The are made with a taper to allow a small misalignment in the two pieces of steel being mated, they also are for hand reaming only. Which means no hand drill, no buck drill
Hope that this helps but for more info please contact me privately at the address listed below.or no drillpress.
RK
Manufacturer's of World Class Golf Club Repair Equipment
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Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:11:42 PM
Subject: ShopTalk: Reamers info from RK
I read the compilation of messages on drilling and reaqming from RK (Richard
Kennedy) posted on the Clubmaker-online page, and got a lot of good info!
RK suggested purchasing a range of reamer sizes, .371, .373, .375 for
parallel irons, etc. I looked at the Wholesale Tool Mfg. web site, and they
listed a bunch of different types of reamers, e.g., chucking, bridge,
expansion.
1. What type are used for working on clubhead hosels?
2. What would the description be for the reamer type used for tapered
hosels?
3. Would you need to bore a little material at a time (with possibly a .360
reamer, then a .365, then a .370 to use reamers to bore a .355 taper hosel
to a .370 parallel hosel.
TIA,
John B
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