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When building a steam boiler, I had the tubesheets made, which use 1.250 diameter boiler tubes. The tubesheets came in with the reamed holes exactly 1.250, and I had trouble inserting the boiler tubes, the holes needed to be enlarged by a few thousandths. My only reamer was 1.250 also, so I put some 0.005 brass shim stock covering only about 1/2 the diameter of the reamer, and ran the reamer thru the 1.250 holes. Fortunately this worked very well, I was able to enlarge all 96 holes quickly, and then proceed with building the boiler.
Has anyone else made a reamer to cut a slightly larger hole with this method?
Has anyone else made a reamer to cut a slightly larger hole with this method?