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Overcoming Boring Challenges
Operators can face complex and challenging projects in industrial boring. These jobs often require precise accuracy and uniformity in dense materials or large parts, while overcoming challenges such as tool deflection, removing chips, and excessive heat. The following are critical factors to consider in various challenging boring operations.
Deep-hole boring
- Maintaining a straight path prevents tapered or off-center holes that can result from the tool veering off its path over long distances.
- The deeper the hole, the more chips can clog the hole and cling to the tool, resulting in tool or workpiece damage.
- The longer boring bar needed for deep holes is less rigid, making it prone to vibration and deflection, which can result in inferior surface finishes and dimensional errors.
Large-part boring
- Large parts present the challenges of maintaining exact tolerances and consistency across their entire length, making it essential to control material temperature and stress to avoid tiny shifts in the workpiece.
Large and complex parts
The excessive weight and dimension of a large workpiece demand the right equipment and careful planning to ensure a successful outcome.
- Large and complex parts often require extended or specialized tools to minimize the risk of deflection and chatter.
Precision and complex boring
- Blind bottom boring involves creating a hole that ends in a flat or flush bottom, leaving less room for chip evacuation and requiring a skilled operator.
- Accurate measurement and process control are required when the project calls for tight tolerances because small movements from temperature shifts or stress can cause a part to be out of the specification limits.
Challenging material boring
- To avoid tool wear and damage, you need to choose the correct tool and coatings, as well as keep the sharpness of the tool
- Because boring hard materials creates high temperatures, maintaining cooling is essential to stop thermal expansion and surface degradation.
Universal DeVlieg provides innovative and cost-cutting tool holding and high precision boring solutions to the machine tool industry, servicing a diversified customer base. The combination of over 32,000 active part numbers, over 10,000 standard items, and our technical support staff deliver design engineering expertise that is unmatched in the industry. To learn more about Universal DeVlieg, contact us This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 877.308.3077 or visit at universaldevlieg.com.