I've been reamed

[augustus]

I recently inherited over 50 reamers. These are very neat tools to me because of the family history, but I have no use for them. I've cleaned and lubed them, and I'm thinking of selling or trading them. I discovered a few more today, these with handles, they aren't in the pictures and I'll try and post them after I clean them.

So, the question is, are they worth anything, if so, what?

 

[andywander]

You can probably get $1 or so each for them on ebay, if you sell them separately.

Maybe $25-30 for the lot.

 

[Ron Swanson]

I would be interested in buying a few that taper and can be chucked in a 1/2 chuck drill.

 

[Farmall450]

You can probably get $1 or so each for them on ebay, if you sell them separately.

Maybe $25-30 for the lot.

Give or take, yes.

 

[A_Pmech]

Reamers are designed to accurately size a hole, but if they've been bouncing around in a box as most used reamers do, the flutes get dinged and they start cutting oversize with a crappy finish. Nobody wants to chance scrapping a part over an unknown reamer. Thus, used chucking reamers are about as valuable as used toilet paper.

If they have family history, why not make a shadow box and display them? They're probably worth more to you in memories than they'll fetch dollars on Ebay.

Now, if you have some machine taper reamers or perhaps some chamber reamers, those might still have some real value.

 

[zkling]

Nobody wants to chance scrapping a part over an unknown reamer.

Now, if you have some machine taper reamers or perhaps some chamber reamers, those might still have some real value.

I don't buy used reamers that I can't inspect in person in hand first.

 

[LXCam]

I don't buy used reamers that I can't inspect in person in hand first.

I'm the same way. I see it all the time, a **** pot full of them just tossed together, its a damn shame.

 

[augustus]

Thanks for the input everyone! Some of them do look like they've been tossed around, and some of them are in very good shape, from what I can tell (I've never used a reamer). For instance one of them was encased in some sort of soft plastic or hard wax that really preserved the cutting end quite well. At any rate, it brings up a good point, what's the proper way to store these? The machinist at work has them piled up in a drawer, but he doesn't buy them either.

A_Pmech - not a bad idea on the shadow box, but I have a bunch or other more interesting tools that I inherited that would serve that purpose better, these reamers don't hold too much sentimental value, although enough that I was compulsed to clean each one.

Ron - so if you look at picture DSC04406.JPG, it happens to show the only tapered reamer in the bunch, but does it chuck into a drill or is it for hand reaming? I ask because, there's a hole there on the shaft, and no markings as if it's been in a chuck before. At any rate, it's 11/16" shaft so wouldn't work for you.

I also have about 100 hex/allen wrenches that I inherited as well. What do you do with those!? A few are large, but geez, how many do you need!

 

[Packard V8]

it happens to show the only tapered reamer in the bunch, but does it chuck into a drill or is it for hand reaming?

It's known as a chucking reamer, but is actually used in a collet in a milling machine. PM me with the nomenclature off the side, as I'm looking for a particular tapered reamer.

jack vines

 

[jkeyser14]

At any rate, it brings up a good point, what's the proper way to store these?

They should be stored in individual cardboard or plastic tubes.

 

[augustus]

Packard, I PM'd you, etched on the reamer is "5380760A" the reamer has a chip on two of its edges.

I think some of them are chamber reamers.

Thanks jkeyser14, that makes sense, I'm assuming that's how they originally ship too?

Here are the others, I like these handles, they are cool in their own right.

I think I need a better way to take pictures if I'm going to keep posting!

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

You have a couple long ones with pilots...post the sizes of those. They are valuable to specific people, like those with old cars requiring a specific size of kingpin or distributor bushing reamer.