Refitting a Great American rain barrel with a new heavy duty spigot.

Step 5 Finish out the hole

My reamer was very dull right around the place I needed to finish the hole, so I grabbed Uncle Rudy's big old coarse circular file and made the hole bigger. I had to be real careful to move around the edge of the hole to avoid notching.

The combination of the file, a little reaming and trimming the inside with the drill bit resulted in a nice round clean hole, just big enough for the fitting.

Tip over the barrel to remove the plastic shavings from inside.