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Jon Leary

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I had trouble with chambering a 25/06. Couldn't stop it form chattering. Tried the wax paper didn't seem to help. A friend told me his Dad always ran a penny along the flutes of a new reamer to prevent chattering. Anyone heard of that trick?
 
You probably need to adjust your spindle bearings.

A Penny? Yes, a reamer can be too sharp and that causes it to grab, hence chatter. But if your spindle bearings are properly adjusted be that should arrest the chatter.
 
That is the only reamer that I had trouble with (25/06), did a 308 the other day no problem. I'll check the spindle though, haven't checked it for a while. Thanks, Jon
 
That is the only reamer that I had trouble with (25/06), did a 308 the other day no problem. I'll check the spindle though, haven't checked it for a while. Thanks, Jon
P.S. Oh I forgot I did that one in the steady rest it was too big for my spindle, that was probably the problem. Most varmit weight and under go through but that one was a fluted almost straight barrel my friend picked up at gunshow. Got csr I guess.
 
I have a .257 AI reamer that has given me those kind of fits from day one, but wax paper has always worked to cure the chatter to date. I suspect just a bad reamer. I'm considering having it reground to something else.---Mike Ezell
 
I did notice that when I switched to a floating reamer holder (from drill chuck) I never had another one chatter. Maybe coincidence.

Another note is that all of my reamers are one mfg, except 2 of them, and those two I had chatter with, on their first bbl.

Ben
 
chatter

chambered a 40-82 bad chatter, tried every thing my brother had a pan of bullet lube laying there so iheated up aand dipped the reamer in it enough to fill the flutes worked like a charm.
 
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