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Needed a 5/8ths reamer for a job. That's...ummm....5 divided by 8, decimal point goes over here...0.625

Except that I ordered and received a 0.0625 reamer from McMaster.

The price should've been a hint...

After going back to McMaster and checking the price on the one I needed Eek vs. the one I ordered, I got a Chineseum one from Grizzly. Just need to bore and finish one aluminum pulley, should be okay, right?

Right?




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Right

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“Uhm yea sir,...Let me know how that works out for ya..” said my first Senior Chief to me almost three decades ago...MM SCPO Jerry Hudson was wise beyond his years for a “seasoned” A-Ganger serving in an elder lady of an LPH and training “his” then Division Officer — continued wishes to Sail Safe and Good Hunting Old Friend!

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Try watching someone calculate a percentage discount. Hahahahah.
 
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Just ream the pulley under a really big magnifying glass...




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My brother repaired Caterpillars for a living for a long time, so quite a few of the tools he needed were plus size. After a few years of putting the snap on guy's kids through college, he came up with a new tool policy. When he needed something, he'd get it from Harbor Freight if he could. If he used it enough to break it, he would replace it with a quality version. It ended up being pretty rare that he had to pony up for the good stuff, and he ended up saving tens of thousands of dollars over the course of his career.

I have high hopes that your new reamer will make it through this first challenge!




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a 0.0625 reamer from McMaster.

Gotta admit, I'm surprised they make a reamer that size.
 
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.0625 = 1/16. A sixteenth-inch reamer? Confused
 
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.0625 = 1/16. A sixteenth-inch reamer? Confused


Yup. Who knew? Can't imagine ever using it, but not worth returning.




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.0625 = 1/16. A sixteenth-inch reamer? Confused


Yup. Who knew? Can't imagine ever using it, but not worth returning.
I'm envisioning a Dremel bit



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I'm envisioning a Dremel bit



Pretty much, yup.




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Originally posted by PHPaul:
a 0.0625 reamer from McMaster.

Gotta admit, I'm surprised they make a reamer that size.


They make them MUCH smaller than that for watchmaking.


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... Just need to bore and finish one aluminum pulley, should be okay, right?

Right?


You don't need a bigger reamer, you need a 1/32" line or cable.





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Hey Paul, you are into diorama's aren't you. Now you have the perfect reamer to make a 1/10 scale model of whatever that life size pulley goes on to.


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Hey Paul, you are into diorama's aren't you. Now you have the perfect reamer to make a 1/10 scale model of whatever that life size pulley goes on to.


Big Grin

Just need to dream up something to use it for.




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Hey Paul, you are into diorama's aren't you. Now you have the perfect reamer to make a 1/10 scale model of whatever that life size pulley goes on to.


Big Grin

Just need to dream up something to use it for.


Having enjoyed many of your project posts here I’m confident you can and will do it and I look forward to the post about the project!


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In the machining world, the zero at the end is important too: 0.625 ≠ 0.6250



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In the machining world, the zero at the end is important too: 0.625 ≠ 0.6250






You mean like this?

I'm waiting on the reamer to arrive to finish the bore and then I can broach the keyway to match.




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It’s just a zero. Zero = nothing you’ll be fine :-D
 
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It’s just a zero. Zero = nothing you’ll be fine :-D


In my world that 4th decimal signifies a tolerance of +/- 0.0005 inch (unless otherwise specified). So it aint "nothin".


I've stopped counting.
 
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