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we don't run a typical live piolet so mansons only used in a pinch as they wont do them the way we need them or anything in carbide. None of your live piolet bushings would work on our set ups.
 
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Are you running the carbides with an oil flush from the muzzle? Could you elaborate on the reason for the small pilot on all sizes? This is the first I have heard of this. Is there a benefit to be had from using thicker pilot bushings? Less chance of deformation perhaps?
 
PTG had a huge problem with quality control awhile ago. I hope they got ahead of that problem. I chambered many barrels with new PTG reamers that were not sharpened properly... not enough relief was cut on the edge... resulting in a reamer very hard to hold on to and increasingly harder as the chamber progressed. The reamer would have to be tapped out with a rod from the muzzle, the rear of the chamber polished larger so you could ream more. It was harder to get the headspace dead on when the reamer would not cut the body properly. Only had one other maker that sent out a similar faulty reamer and that was about 1971-72.
 
Robmcleod82 said:
Are you running the carbides with an oil flush from the muzzle? Could you elaborate on the reason for the small pilot on all sizes? This is the first I have heard of this. Is there a benefit to be had from using thicker pilot bushings? Less chance of deformation perhaps?
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need the carbide do to the RPM I turn them at
Cant go into the other stuff as it was the way I was taught and was told to keep it to myself by the gentleman that taught me...sorry dude
 
Dennis, I have had that same issue with a whole bunch of PTG reamers. Some were ground with barely enough clearance and would work OK for a few chambers then quit when the edge dulled just a little. Some were so bad that I swear I could look at them when I took them out and know they were not going to cut. Clymers have been just the opposite and seemed anxious to cut with a tendency to chatter. Hugh Henriksen's reamers are beautiful and always cut as you expect. I have found the pilots on PTG reamers to vary a bit with some being too tight and others too loose. This never happens with Henricksen's or JGS.
 
This fellow has be known as the best reamer maker of all out there. long wait time If I had a choice I would take the Henricksen reamer every time. Henricksen has a high level of expertise and is a true craftsman and a perfectionist and puts 100% into each reamer, that is clear.

Hugh Henriksen

Henriksen Tool CO



8515 Wagner Creek Road
Talent, OR 97540
Phone: (541) 535-2309
 
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