Thread: Reducing size of bronze bushes

I have some 16mm OD bronze bushes, 30mm long, ID 10 mm that I need to reduce to 5/8" OD. ( 15.875mm OD)

Can anyone please advise the best way to do this?

Best way would be to mount on a Mandrel and machine them in a lathe.
If you are trying to find a method to reduce your Diameter without the use of machine tools and still retain a true diameter I think you will be hard pressed.

I concur with pipeclay, a mandrel on a lathe...

Hi
How many do you need to do?
How accurate do they need to be?(I'm assuming pretty accurate because you include the 0.005mm, but its 5/8 which I guess is what you are really after)
Do you have assess to a metal lathe?

Stuart

If they don't need to be super accurate, you can mount them in a wood lathe on slow RPM and file then linish them to size.