Some Drilling Tips to Keep-in-Mind

6/13/2018

We've assembled a few tips on drilling that you may want to pass along to your team.

Drilling Tip 1

During drilling operations, chip formation is very important to keep an eye on. If you are getting long unbroken chip with jagged edges, your feed rate is too high. If you are getting tight spirals but the chips are not breaking apart, your feed rate is too low.

The Ideal chip shape is small tight curls, Like little "6's and 9's". When you are getting these shapes of chips then you will get best tools life and finish on your part.

Drilling Tip 2

If your drill is getting chipped only on one edge or if your drill has more wear on one cutting edge than the other, the cause could be bad run out of the drill or bad alignment of the machine.

This means one side of the drill is experiencing more axial forces than the other. If you correct the run out of the drill and alignment of machine spindle, the problem will be solved.

Drilling Tip 3

If your drill has too much run out, you will have issues such as hole expansion, bad hole perpendicularity, and poor surface finish.
Drill run out should be less than 0.0008"(0.02mm) when setting up. The run out increases with the speed, thus, when drilling a deep hole.

OSG recommends making the pilot hole 0~0.003"(0.08mm) oversize and inserting a long drill at 0~500rpm so that the drill is fitting properly in the pilot hole .

Drilling Tip 4

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Drilling Tip 5

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5 Comments

Skyler Williams link

9/4/2019 12:31:44

Thank you for explaining that if there are long unbroken chips with jagged edges it means that the feed rate is too high. My brother just joined a construction company and he's learning to deep hole drill. I'll be sure to pass this tip along to him to help him learn faster.

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1/28/2021 11:35:19

Thanks for saying that bad alignment can cause a drill to get chipped. I need to have some drilling done on my property this summer for when I renovate my home. I'll make sure the professional I hire knows the importance of proper alignment when drilling.

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