Ok some of you know from my other threads that I offer a service where I ream out PB barrels to accept a barrel insert of various sizes. Anyhow reaming thru that layer of anodize is killing my reamers. Right now I am using HSS reamers since they need to be really sharp problem is they dont stay that way long. I have tracked the use of my latest set of reamers and I get 15 uses before I start seeing issues. I am sure that I can get about 10 more good uses out of them but each time I have to baby the cut more and more (clear chips more often more lube generally more time per unit). So I am thinking about sharpening them in some way so that I can get more uses before scraping them. The main reason I am thinking about sharpening them is because the final reamer is kinda an odd ball size and is rather expensive to keep re-ordering (0.745 DIA). I am not too concerned about the tenths that I will loose by sharpening I can loose up to 0.002 before their is any real issue with the hole being too small. So the question is how would one go about doing this? I figure there is a couple options
1. do it manually the old school way (I would have to learn how)
2. Buy some kind of sharpener like a darex (do darex sharpeners do reamers?)
3. Find someone who can sharpen them for me and put them on a rotation
4. Keep with the status quo and keep buying them new.
So does anyone have some wisdom they would like to pass along? And thanks in advance.
1. do it manually the old school way (I would have to learn how)
2. Buy some kind of sharpener like a darex (do darex sharpeners do reamers?)
3. Find someone who can sharpen them for me and put them on a rotation
4. Keep with the status quo and keep buying them new.
So does anyone have some wisdom they would like to pass along? And thanks in advance.