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02-01 - Tender Wheel (Axle Hole Reaming)

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Uploaded by on Mar 13, 2008

Tender wheel machining, based on Kozo Hiraoka's "Pennsy A3 Switcher"

7X12 mini-lathe reaming the axle hole of a 12L14 steel blank, machined with a 5/16" chucking reamer.

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  • I have a question about reaming, if you were to have that piece on a rotary chuck on a mill table, can you spin the reamer in the mills collet and ream that way? or are reamers ment to be stationary

  • @ShnitzlHaus

    I'm not sure. Most of what I've gleaned of the machining trade has come out of the older vocational-technical manuals common during the late 19th/early 20th centuries and Kozo Hiraoka's live stem construction manuals. You can find copies at Lindsay Books or Discover Live Steam.

    I don't have any recollection of seeing a chucking reamer rotated while the workpiece is stationary, but I'm hardly an expert.  All the examples of reaming I've seen have been in lathe work.

  • That sure seemed quick for a reaming operation...and not coolant either. To each his own.

  • Cutting oil was applied just before reaming. Got cut in editing. Besides, the bore came out lovely. Just the right kind of fit, too.

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  • Bunch of axle hole reamers around here.

  • Can you build one of these things in 3/4 with a minium of equipment?

    I am like alot of people, I want to build a live steamer but don't have thousands of dollars to spend on equipment.

  • made my day, well worth a watch

  • Very interesting video!

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