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How To Ream (Stainless) Steel Pipe
Hi, I'm Mike from RIDGID.
We're going to talk a little bit about stainless steel working.
We discussed in an early video about stainless cutting,
and we looked at 2 new tube cutters from ourselves.
Tube cutting with a wheel and roller cutter is what we call at a trader a displacement cut.
You don't actually remove any metal to form the cut.
You push it.
And that's what this wheel does.
The wheel pushes metal.
Where does it push it?
It pushes it into the tube, into the hole in the middle, quite convenient.
There's a hole there.
It will push the metal in there.
So that's what they do.
They push and displace the metal into there.
Now that burr on the inside of the tube is a restriction to flow.
Okay. You've designed a system to work on a particular size of pipe.
And how you're going to reduce the internal size?
So what you need to do?
Well, you need to ream it, and that's what these things do.
These are stainless steel reamers from ourselves.
We've got 2 models here; the 233 and the 227S.
Little one.
Big one. Up to 36mm and basically up to 54mm.
And these are dual function reamers.
So you've got a cone on either side there.
So the cone on this side is for doing the internal burr.
And you just simply turn those around and mix the burr out.
If you've got a little burr on the outside edge, you use the internal cones here.
Put the tube in, rotate it and take the burrs off.
And that's how you prep the tube after you cut it.
You need to ream it with a stainless steel reamer.