Holemaking

Boring Bars

Wireless Technology Provides Networking Solution For Manufacturer

With complex relocations came the need for this manufacturer of power-transmission components for mining and offshore drilling to upgrade the PC hardware and LAN (Local Area Network) connections associated with their CNC machines. The machines were placed in an area that did not have easy access to the LAN connections.

New Drilling Process Helps Manufacturer Expand

Planning to expand its services in the high-quality, high-pressure end of the heat exchanger market, this long-tim manufacturer started the search for new high speed drilling machines to advance its technology and improve quality and response time.

Job Shop Finds Its Niche With The Help Of Tapping Machines

The metalworking job shop market can be illustrated as a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is the largest segment of the discrete parts manufacturing business.

The Real-World Economics Of High-Performance Drilling

To determine true cost, consider the total life of the drill.

Rigid Tapping--Sometimes You Need A Little Float

One of the most common methods of tapping in use today on CNC machines is 'rigid tapping' or 'synchronous feed tapping.' A rigid tapping cycle synchronizes the machine spindle rotation and feed to match a specific thread pitch. Since the feed into the hole is synchronized, in theory a solid holder without any tension-compression can be used.

Heavy-Duty Hole Making

A modular drilling and boring system has changed this oilfield product manufacturer's holemaking operations.

Drilling Dry With A Heat Pipe

It's widely known that hole making is, by a significant margin, the most frequently performed process among metalworking operations. It's also among the most difficult operations to control from a thermal perspective.

Another Way To Square—Or Is It Perpendicular?—It Up

There are a number of tools available for shop personnel to evaluate the right angle relationship between two surfaces. The basic machinist square has a number of variations, the most common being the hardened steel square used to check right angles and set up milling and drilling machines.

A Boring System For Non-Round Holes

Machining an out-of-round bore is easy if you're not particular about the location or magnitude of the roundness error. But accurately machining a hole that has a precisely defined non-round profile is a capability that would seem to be well beyond what a standard boring bar can accomplish.