Hand Reamers
To ensure the of a project it's important that the product is completed to a high standard of finish. Part of this can be when producing holes through materials, sometimes the material is leftover and a hand reamer can ensure the hole is left completely smooth. Hand reamers like machine reamers are designed to smooth over a hole with great precision and quality.
When drilling a hole it can leave the hole uneven, and reaming will slightly enlarge the hole. Producing a smaller hole initially will allow reaming space, called the allowance. Its recommended that the drilled diameter shouldn't be enlarged more than 5%.
Hand reamers are typically made from carbide or high-speed steel (HSS), these multi-edged rotary cutting tools are used within metalworking industries for enlarging and finishing holes with a high level of precision and accuracy.
At RS, we have both machine reamer bits and hand reamer bits. The main difference between the two is that hand reamer bits have a longer taper or lead in at the front end of the bit, which compensates for the difficulty of using hand power alone.
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- Reamer Bits
- Dormer 5mm x 87 mm HSS Hand Reamer
- RS PRO Straight Shank Reamer Bit, 15.25 → 17mm Diameter, 165 mm Overall
- Facom 26 mm Reamer Hand Reamer
- Dormer 6mm x 135 mm HSS Hand Reamer Hand Reamer
- Dormer 10mm x 133 mm HSS Hand Reamer Hand Reamer
- Dormer 8mm x 180 mm HSS Hand Taper Pin Reamer Hand Reamer
- Tivoly 2mm x 49 mm HSS-Co Machine Reamer Hand Reamer