Books have been written on how to produce deep holes using milling machines or lathes, but trying to drill deep holes with depth-to-diameter ratios greater than 15-1 (D-d) using standard machining centers often leads to frustration, costly scrap and poor use of shop resources.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2020-06-19
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/engineered-approach-deep-hole-drilling/
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