Clay Whip Reamer

The Clay Whip Reamer by American Augers is a versatile piece of  HDD jobsite tooling that is designed to prevent "clay balling". The reamer spins relative to the clay cuttings. The clay cuttings are blended into the fluid and are therefore carried out of the hole in the resulting slurry. With field proven results, the Clay Whip Reamer is a must have when clay soils threaten project success!

• High Velocity Fluid Jets - Drilling fluid is jetted at high velocity radially from several locations along the length of the shaft.
• Minimal Surface Area — Using only two wings having a slender silhouette, the surface area of the reamer is minimized to reduce the number of square inches to which the clay can adhere.
• Knives - The “knives” on the forward end of the shaft rotate with the shaft to continuously slice virgin clay into cuttings that are exposed to the jetted fluid.
• Unmatched Mixers - The mixer wings at the rear of the shaft rotate with the shaft and are unmatched in profile and therefore swipe different profiles through the mixture of cuttings and fluid during rotation. The differing profiles cause the mixture to shear, smear, separate and rejoin, thereby exposing the microscopic clay platelets to the drilling fluid all along the way. This action whips the mixture into a slurry just as a baker’s mixer turns dry flour and milk into batter. We want “batter”.
• Wobble - The 2-wing design is not fully supported in the tunnel radially and when the wings approach the 3 and 9 o’clock positions, gravity pulls the shaft off-center. As the wings approach the 6 o’clock position, they slap hard into the tunnel wall and throw the shaft back toward center. This abrupt wobbling action helps the mixer wings shake free from the sticky grasp of the clay.

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