Two members of the custom fabrication team in action.
This custom reamer request falls under the “if you can dream it, we can build it” category. In this case, a customer contacted the custom team with a specific request. Along with a standard set 20-, 28- and 38-inch Maxi Barrel reamers, the customer specified a unique reamer design, tailored to a large job in the northeast United States.
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The design, dubbed a Flat-Faced Cutting Reamer, featured:
- An open body design;
- Bi-directional, to support both push and pull reaming;
- Flat cutting face;
- Massive box tube internal support structures designed to deliver large fluid volumes inside the stabilizing ring.
Hard-facing the 28-inch Flat-Faced reamer.
The order called for a total of nine reamers: three standard stabilizing Maxi-Barrels and six Flat-Faced Cutting reamers, ranging in size from 24-, 32-, to 40-inches in diameters. All reamers were mounted to 9.5-inch shafts.
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Along with the challenge of executing an entirely new design—including sourcing parts unique to the design and building the necessary fabrication jigs—the order called for a tight 3-day delivery window on the first three reamers, with the balance due in 14-days.
Given the short production window to fulfill the order, this was an “all hands on deck” effort.
