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Drilling and Reaming Machines

Drilling and Reaming Machines

There are very few engineering components that do not have holes in them somewhere or other.

Holes in thin metal sheets may be made by hand tools suck as chisel. But, if a hole of say 6 mm diameter is required in a 25 mm thick steel plate, a drill and a drilling machine must be used. A drill is a rotary end-cutting tool with (one or) more cutting lips and usually (one or) more flutes for the passage of chips and the admission of cutting fluid.

A drilling machine is a machine tool designed for drilling holes in metals, many operations, other than drilling a round hole, can also be performed on the drilling machine. Some of these are, sanding, counter boring, countersinking. honing, reaming, lapping etc,