PTG Reamers

Some good, some bad... quality control has been a problem.

I have several that are fine. I have seen several that needed a regrind on the body... not enough relief on the edge and the reamer would not 'cut'...
 
A couple years ago I bought a .308 Obermeyer finishing reamer from them, it was .006" undersize. When I called them about it, they asked me what type of brass I was using. I told them Lapua brass and the a$$hat on the phone told me that I needed a different size reamer for Lapua brass. I told him that he was full of $hit and didn't know what he was talking about. They didn't offer to make it right, and blamed me for not ordering the proper reamer. The phone call didn't go well after that. Needless to say I don't buy PTG reamers anymore.
 
That last one I got cut on 3 flutes and I had to send it back for a regrind which took time and the shipping was on my dime. When they did a big expansion a way back reamer QC took a nose dive in a effort to produce more product.
 
I have had some with no clearance which would not cut. Some on which the margin was too thin and the reamer dulled quickly, some which were not what I ordered and some which were obvious regrinds. Some were so obviously wrong that I could tell they were not going to cut as soon as I took them out of the sleeve.
I have Henriksen reamers which have cut forty+ chambers without sharpening and have PTG reamers which quit cutting after two. I have one solid pilot PTG reamer which was not ground to the bottom of the pilot and, had I not caught it, would have ruined the throat. I have started to buy reamers from Manson and have been pleased with them. I have also been happy with reamers from JGS. I will no longer buy from PTG.
 
I ordered one, along with the usual accessories like a set of bushings, chamber gauges, bolt recess tool for that range of bushing sizes, etc. I ordered it early in the year and it wasn't until when I called them in the fall and asked them what the hold up was, that they finally shipped it. I would have thought 2-3 months would be enough, as that was what they said their backlog was, not 7 months. In the end, the reamer and other supplies were excellent, but what a wait.
 
maynard said:
A couple years ago I bought a .308 Obermeyer finishing reamer from them, it was .006" undersize. When I called them about it, they asked me what type of brass I was using. I told them Lapua brass and the a$$hat on the phone told me that I needed a different size reamer for Lapua brass. I told him that he was full of $hit and didn't know what he was talking about. They didn't offer to make it right, and blamed me for not ordering the proper reamer. The phone call didn't go well after that. Needless to say I don't buy PTG reamers anymore.
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Is that the official reamer for any team members going to the west indies????????
 
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