I have a 0.250" diameter chucking reamer ordered, am hoping for suggestions on which machine to run it in; lathe or drill press.
The reamer looks like the one below, straight flutes:
The existing hole is about 0.3" deep, it is a through-hole.
Regardless of which machine I use, the workpiece and the reamer can swap positions: In the lathe, I can chuck the reamer, or the workpiece, same for the drill press.
From what I've read, reamers want to "follow the hole", also that it's best to let the reamer go fully through the hole, stop the machine, and retract the reamer.
The advantage to running this on the lathe is I have full, independent control over feed rate, if that turns out to be important for hole finish. My concern with the lathe is that the reamer, because it's horizontal, will also want to "follow gravity" both in the hole, and once it pushes all the way through.
On the other hand, the drill press offers no way to control feed rate; either I can do that manually, or release the quill spring enough so gravity does it.
In any event, I'm hoping for some guidance so I don't start out doing it as wrong as possible, an approach I sadly excel at
The reamer looks like the one below, straight flutes:
The existing hole is about 0.3" deep, it is a through-hole.
Regardless of which machine I use, the workpiece and the reamer can swap positions: In the lathe, I can chuck the reamer, or the workpiece, same for the drill press.
From what I've read, reamers want to "follow the hole", also that it's best to let the reamer go fully through the hole, stop the machine, and retract the reamer.
The advantage to running this on the lathe is I have full, independent control over feed rate, if that turns out to be important for hole finish. My concern with the lathe is that the reamer, because it's horizontal, will also want to "follow gravity" both in the hole, and once it pushes all the way through.
On the other hand, the drill press offers no way to control feed rate; either I can do that manually, or release the quill spring enough so gravity does it.
In any event, I'm hoping for some guidance so I don't start out doing it as wrong as possible, an approach I sadly excel at