Getting Reaming Speeds and Feeds Right Every Time
Getting your reaming speeds and feeds right is the secret to hitting those tight tolerances without pulling your hair out or scrapping expensive workpieces. It's one of those tasks that seems simple enough—you're just enlarging a hole slightly, right?—but if you've ever had a reamer chatter, weld itself to the material, or cut a hole three thousandths oversized, you know there's more to it than just "eyeballing it." ...