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268849 John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> 2019‑07‑07 Re: New uses for old stuff
Ed,

I had also thought those reamers were cooper’s tools, but my understanding was
that they were TAP reamers, rather than BUNG reamers.

My humble understanding had been that the bung stave of a wooden barrel was
bored and reamed by a single tee-handled tool which has a regular screw-auger
nose and then a reamer cone with a single plane-like cutting edge above that.  (
How coopers sharpened that reamer edge was always a mystery! )

The tap hole in the edge of the head of the barrel I thought was bored with an
ordinary auger and then ostensibly taper-teamed for a cork with one of these
supposed “cooper’s tap reamers.”  _I now believe that Scott is correct about
these being lead-pipe plumber’s tools because the taper is “just wrong” for a
cork._

Scott has done it again!  Dissipated an old tool myth with true Galootish
knowledge!

John Ruth
Who will move this tool to the plumbing tote.

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