Drill Modification

A customer of ours had new indexable drills manufactured.  The design they had was a 4 end pocketed drill with a chamfer insert.  The indexable drill did the job but the customer wanted to see if we could cut down on cycle time.  When working with the engineers at the customer’s facility, along side our engineering staff, we came up with a great solution.  What we came up with was to eliminate two of the end pockets and change them into a bigger I.C. insert.  We used the same insert as the chamfer pocket and made the drill into a 3 pocketed core and chamfer drill.  This cut cycle time in half.  Another benefit was eliminating pockets - from 5 to 3.  Now the tool uses the same inserts and screw in each pocket.  If you want a success story like this contact one of  our qualified staff members.