Drilling & Boring

News • April 15, 2015

Intrepid releases new tool catalog

Intrepid Tool Industries, Surprise, Ariz., has released its new 2015/2016 full-line catalog, showing the company's current offering of drills, reamers and countersinks for machining composites, aluminum, titanium and other aerospace materials. Additions include a new series of "W" point drills, combination drill/countersinks, porting tools with through-tool coolant holes and a full line of PCD drills and countersinks. For more information, call (800) 998-6565 or visit www.intrepidtool.com.

News • April 15, 2015

KAISER, BIG Daishowa strengthen alliance

KAISER Precision Tooling Ltd., Rümlang, Switzerland, reports that it has strengthened its long-term partnership, BIG Daishowa Seiki Co. Ltd., Japan, by agreeing to be acquired by the BIG Daishowa group as of April 15. KAISER Precision Tooling, a supplier of modular boring tools, and BIG Daishowa Seiki, a producer of toolholders and measurement devices, have had a technology and distribution partnership since 1980.

Videos • April 9, 2015

An asymmetric line boring bar

Automaker BMW challenged the Kennametal Inc. to develop a tool that accentuates the advantages of reaming and line boring while virtually eliminating the disadvantages. Kennametal accepted the task and developed its asymmetric line boring bar, which has two guide pads positioned so they only contact the last journal. This enables the boring bar to be quickly fed in and out of the multijournal bore without touching the workpiece. This geometry allows the bar to be fed through the raw, or unfinished, bores on an eccentric path.

Articles • April 1, 2015 • Kip Hanson

Productivity-boosting boring heads

Boring heads that improve productivity.

Articles • February 1, 2015

Look out below

I don't like bringing this up, but two key metalworking markets -- defense and energy -- are in a bit of trouble.

Articles • February 1, 2015 • Evan Jones Thorne

Setting the table

Table-type horizontal boring mills add versatility to machine shops.

Articles • January 1, 2015 • Evan Jones Thorne

Right tool makes deep holes easier to drill

Deep holes can be difficult to define, but knowing the right tool for the job makes them easier to drill.

Videos • December 11, 2014

Composite machining

Cutting Tool Engineering magazine hosted a Webinar Dec. 10, 2014, featuring Mike MacArthur, vice president of engineering at the RobbJack Corp. Following the main presentation, titled "Technologies & Strategies for Composite Drilling, Routing and Trimming," CTE Publisher Don Nelson held a brief Q&A session with questions submitted by the audience.

News • December 10, 2014

Mikron expands tooling line with DC Swiss products

Mikron Corp. Monroe, based in Monroe, Conn., has added a new product family to its line of cutting tools. Tapping and threading tools from the DC Swiss company are now available directly from inventory at Mikron Corp. DC Swiss has been selected due to its specialized knowledge and decades-long experience in threading technology, according to Mikron.

Products • November 1, 2014

Traditional Drill Press Vises

Versatile drill presses from Palmgren reportedly set the standard for the industry.

Videos • October 11, 2014

BIG Kaiser tackles deep-hole boring

Jack Burley, vice president of sales & engineering at BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., presented an overview of technology designed to tackle deep hole boring challenges during IMTS 2014.

Articles • October 1, 2014 • Christopher Tate

Going deep with holemaking

The Shop Technology column looks at the significant advances in deep-hole drilling in the October 2014 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.