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45-70 Chamber reamer
Yesterday at 2:15am
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I have acquired a very early Trap door Springfield with a rough chamber. Does anyone have a finishing reamer I could borrow? It will be returned as soon as I clean up the chamber.
  
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Re: 45-70 Chamber reamer
Reply #1 - yesterday at 5:44am
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You can rent from 4D reamers, very reasonable.
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Re: 45-70 Chamber reamer
Reply #2 - yesterday at 6:07am
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You cannot cleanup a chamber with a reamer with out removing metal and that means a deeper rim cut and a longer chamber. Also a SAAMI spec reamer most likely would be undersized for your gun.
  
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Re: 45-70 Chamber reamer
Reply #3 - yesterday at 3:04pm
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There is a small gouge about 3-16" long in the chamber wall which in turn is gouging cases. That is my major concern. Also, there is some age detritus or corrosion restricting the chamber mouth. So I don't anticipate removing much metal.
  
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Re: 45-70 Chamber reamer
Reply #4 - yesterday at 4:43pm
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You probably wont remove any metal since a gouge is deeper than surrounding metal. You might end up having to have the chamber sleeved and then reamed to .45-70 again.
  

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