This article relates how three shops used creative ideas to solve difficult boring problems. One shop built a custom tool to bore deep holes. Another used a combination of standard tools to bore an interrupted cut. And a third achieved tight tolerances with an assortment of plastic sleeves and plugs.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 1999-10-01
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/articles/tough-bores/
Legacy path: /articles/tough-bores