Horizontal Boring Machines; Be Informed On The Machines

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By Kirk Kon


Very few individuals are aware of a Horizontal boring machine. They do not even know what it does for them in their furniture stores. The oldest and the most widely used method of bringing wood pieces together is doweling. Other devices like the efficient horizontal boring machines have been made as years progressed and actually all of them are uniquely made.

With the necessity to produce vast amounts of furniture owing to the growing population resulting to high demand, there was need to come up with an easier way to go about it. This is the root of creation of machine- based horizontally designed drilling process.

In most of the cases, mills are designed to play roles of adapters that connect tools that are used to cut to a spindle. This spindle then begins to make power. The motion started stops when equipment for cutting are well positioned. A bar support will operate in varying capacities depending with length of bars that are needed to finish the process, how the bores are accessible and finish stringency levels.

Two basic types of bars are used in this process, namely the line bars and the stub bars. Stab bars get mounted at the spindle edge and get used when holes are needed closer to headstock. Sometimes regular bars are employed and in this case, slots provided are where operators insert a flat cutter. You can adjust the setscrew of the other cutter depending on how you want your design to look like . The tools used can either be one edged or have two edges and in both, the side bars have edges. To make multiple cuts, Install additional cutters and stack them to operate immediately.

Drilling fixtures are often used to improve on the productivity ability of the machines. This comes about through support of a piece been worked on and also by making sure the pieces are aligned as per the requirements before the work begins. Many milling cutters work just fine on any machine to do milling. It is the end mills which create holes, grooves and slots on the work piece. To do finishing on materials whose surface is flat then facing cutters are the best to use. Circular grooves should be done carefully. The rigid construction of a machine and how durable its work parts are ensures precision on its working.

They can be used in joining of stiles to rail in cabinet flushes where end stile is connected to the rail bottom age. Joining square legs at the corner to apron too where each of the legs two sides are attached by drills to apron. Also in drilling together narrow boards. This is to create wide panels to be used as dresser tops, table or any other large furniture piece.

Before purchasing such kind of a machine determine how well it is powered. Efficient ones have a motor having three quarters to 2 HP. Consider the size of its work table too. They are used to carry out long and cumbersome work. The work pieces have to be supported well too for consistency and accuracy in placement of holes. Therefore the wider the work table is then the better. The working space should have at least 3-4 inches minimum allowance to adjust the height. This is to allow for hole centering in edges of both thin and thick pieces. It should also cater for tilting too.

A fence to back up is a necessity too. This should be able adjustable and also allow for addition of stops. This makes sure the holes are placed at a consistent pattern when repetitive work of drilling is been done on multiple pieces of materials. The strokes made by the spindle should three inches and above.




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