Holemaking
Whether it’s using drills to make holes, borings bars or reamers to enlarge their IDs, or taps to thread them, this is where to read up about holemaking. Holemaking is a process used to cut a hole in a part or a workpiece.
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How to Turn Machine Shop Downtime Into Process Expertise
To take advantage of a lull in business, JR Machine devised a week-long cutting tool event that elevated the shop’s capabilities with aerospace alloys.
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How to Tackle Tough Angled Pocket Milling With Two Tools
Milling a deep pocket with a tight corner radius comes with unique challenges, but using both a flat bottom drill and a necked-down finishing tool can help.
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Choosing Your Carbide Grade: A Guide
Without an international standard for designating carbide grades or application ranges, users must rely on relative judgments and background knowledge for success.
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Cutting Tool Technology Aids Lights-Out Machining Applications
These features can help improve cutting tool stability, standardize cutting performance and extend tool life, enabling shops to confidently run unattended shifts.
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How to Improve Peck Drilling Canned Cycles
Most CNCs don’t have a canned cycle for machining deep holes into malleable materials. Here’s what you do.
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Tips for Thread Milling Tricky Materials
Compared to tapping, thread-milling technology offers advantages for creating threads in challenging materials, such as tool steel, stainless steel and high-temperature alloys. Here are a few tips for establishing an effective thread-milling process in those materials.
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Latest Holemaking News And Updates
Scientific Cutting Tools Announces Wear-Resistant Roughing Drills
IMTS 2024: Scientific Cutting Tools introduces its line of roughing drills, specifically designed to prepare holes for SAEJ1926 and AS5202 ports, sizes -2 through -8.
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Allied Digital Readout Module Optimizes Boring Operations
IMTS 2024: Allied Machine and Engineering is exhibiting the Wolhaupter 3E tech+ digital readout module, designed to eliminate the damage of digital tooling components by cutting chips or high-pressure coolant.
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Morse Cutting Tools' High-Performance Drills Enhance Hole Quality
IMTS 2024: Morse Cutting Tools reintroduces its Shear Drill line, featuring advanced cutting geometry and various sizes for versatility.
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ETP Transmission Toolholders Feature Hydraulic Clamping
IMTS 2024: ETP Transmission showcases its Hydro-Fix Swiss hydraulic clamping toolholders, designed to handle 26 different shank sizes, accelerating cutting tool changes.
Read MoreEngis Boring Tool Provides Burr-Free Finishes
IMTS 2024: Engis Corp. presents its Engis Hybrid solution for boring finishing processes, designed to produce sharper, burr-free finishes on cross holes and meter edges within the part.
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Walter Boring Bars Provide Fast, Precise Tool Changes
The Walter QuadFit cylindrical modular interface enables quick and easy replacement of exchangeable heads.
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Custom PCD Tools Extend Shop’s Tool Life Upward of Ten Times
Adopting PCD tooling has extended FT Precision’s tool life from days to months — and the test drill is still going strong.
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Form Tapping Improves Tool Life, Costs
Moving from cut tapping to form tapping for a notable application cut tooling costs at Siemens Energy and increased tool life a hundredfold.
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10 Ways Additive Manufacturing and Machining Go Together and Affect One Another
Forget “additive versus subtractive.” Machining and metal additive manufacturing are interconnected, and enhance the possibilities for one another. Here is a look at just some of the ways additive and machining interrelate right now.
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New Machining Technology Works With Old to Restore WWII Submarine
A set of donated boring bars that can be used in a 1954 boring head will enable volunteer machinists to recreate a pair of binoculars for the USS Pampanito.
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How to Turn Machine Shop Downtime Into Process Expertise
To take advantage of a lull in business, JR Machine devised a week-long cutting tool event that elevated the shop’s capabilities with aerospace alloys.
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How Lowering Torque Improves Tapping Tool Life
Escaping the tap breakage trap requires a long look at torque and the many factors that influence it.
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FAQ: Holemaking
What Are Carbide Coatings?
Most modern carbide inserts and solid carbide tools are coated with a thin film (between 3 and 20 microns, or 0.0001 to 0.0007 inch). The coating is typically composed of titanium nitride, aluminum oxide and titanium carbon nitride layers. This coating increases the hardness and creates a heat barrier between the cut and the substrate.
What is a counterbore?
Counterboring is a machining operation that will enlarge an existing hole’s diameter to a specified depth. Traditionally, counterboring is done with either a special counterboring tool that has a pilot, or it is done with an end mill. In either case, the diameter of the tool (end mill or counterbore) must match the diameter that is counterbored.
Traditional counterboring is great for smaller holes, but as holes get larger, the cutting tools get more expensive.
What is countersinking?
A countersink is a functional surface upon which a fastener head bears. Because fastener performance is so important, countersink tolerances are critical.
What is a chamfer?
Hole chamfers are usually specified simply to make it easier to insert a screw, pin, bushing, or other assembly component. The component doesn't bear on the chamfer, so diameter and angle tolerances are usually not critical to the part's performance.
Holemaking Supplier Categories
- Deep Hole Drilling Machines (Gun Drilling)
- Boring Tools & Heads for Machining Centers
- Drills
- Drill Bushings
- Fixtured Drilling & Tapping Units
- Boring Tools
- Multi-Spindle Drilling Machines
- CNC Drilling & Tapping
- Radial Arm Drilling Machines
- Drilling Heads/Attachments
- Bench & Column Drilling Machines
- Gundrills
- Boring Tools for Turning Machines
- Reamers
- Drill Chucks
