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How to Use a Pull Through Reamer

A pull through chamber-reaming tool is used to ream and finish gun barrels that are either too small all the way through or tapered at one end. The device resembles a drill bit at the end of a long rod and bores through the center of the tube, cutting away the excess material and leaving a perfectly smoothed and cut center. To use a pull through reamer, you must keep the tube you are boring stationary and twist the reamer at a constant rate in one direction, making this task only for the steady-handed.

Instructions

- 1
  Cover the pull through reamer and barrel you will be using it on in cutting fluid.
- 2
  Place the barrel into a vice and tighten the vice until the object is secure.
- 3
  Place the bushing that came with the reamer onto the end of the reamer and insert it into the end of the barrel opposite the muzzle.
- 4
  Insert the rod that came with the reamer into the muzzle end of the barrel and screw it into the reamer.
- 5
  Twist the rod in a clockwise motion with pressure applied to it to advance it through the barrel. Rotate the reamer at a steady rate at roughly 60 to 200 rotations per minute.
- 6
  Twist the rod until the barrel's bolt lug spring locks. After this, stop twisting the rod.
- 7
  Twist the rod counterclockwise while applying reverse pressure to the reamer to remove the reamer from the barrel.

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