Twist Drills

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Twist Drills

• End-cutting tools

• Used to produce holes in most typesof materials

• Two helical grooves, or flutes, are cutlengthwise around body of drill

• Provide cutting edges and space forcuttings to escape during drilling process

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Twist Drill Parts

• Most made of high-speed steel

• Replaced carbon-steel drills for tworeasons

• Can be operated at double the cutting speed

• Cutting edge lasts longer

• Stamped with letters H.S or H.S.S.

• Carbide-tipped drills

• Speeds for production have increased upto 300% over high-speed drills

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Three MainPartsof a Drill

Shank

Body

Point

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Drill Shank

• Straight-shank drills

• Held in drill chuck

• Up to ½ in.in diameter

• Tapered-shank drills

• Fit into internal taper of drill press spindle

• Tang provided on end to prevent drill fromslipping

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Drill Body

• Portion of drill between shank and point• Consists of number of parts for cutting• Flutes

• Two or more helical grooves cut aroundbody of drill

• Form cutting edges, admit cutting fluid,allow chips to escape hole

• Body Clearance• Undercut portion of body between margin

and flutes

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Drill Body

• Margin

• Narrow, raised section on body of drill

• Extends entire length of flutes

• Provides full size to drill body and edges

• Web

• Thin partition in center of drill,

extends full length of flutes

• Forms chisel edge at cutting

end of drill

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Drill Point

• Consists of chisel edge, lips, lip clearance,and heel

• Chisel edge

• Chisel-shaped portion of drill point

• Lips

• Cutting edges formed by intersection of flutes

• Must be of equal length and have same angle

• So drill run true and not cut hole larger than drill

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Drill Point

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Lip Clearance

• The relief ground on point of drill extendingfrom cutting lips back to the heel

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Drill Point Characteristics

1. Control size, quality and straightness ofdrilled hole

2. Control size, shape and formation of chip

3. Control chip flow up flutes

4. Increase strength of drill's cutting edges

The use of various point angles and lipclearances, in conjunction with thinningof the drill web, will allow:

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5. Reduce rate of wear at cutting edges

6. Reduce amount of drilling pressure

required

7. Control amount of burr produced

8. Reduce amount of heat generated

9. Permit use of various speeds and feeds for

more efficient drilling

Drill Point Characteristics

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Conventional Point (118º)

• Most commonly used drill point

• Gives satisfactory results for mostgeneral-purpose drilling

• Lip clearance of 8º to 12º for bestresults

• Too much weakens cuttingedge and causes drill to chip

• Too little results in use ofheavy drilling pressure

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Long Angle Point 60º - 90º

• Used on low helix drills for drilling ofnonferrous metals, soft cast irons,plastics, fibers, and wood

• Lip clearance generally from 12º to 15º

• Flat may be ground on

face of lips to prevent

drill from drawing itself

into the soft material

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Flat Angle Point 135º -150º

• Used to drill hard and tough materials

• Lip clearance on flat angle point drillsonly 6º to 8º to provide as muchsupport as possible for cutting edges

• Shorter cutting edge

tends to reduce friction

and heat during drilling

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Four Systems of Drill Sizes

a)Fractional

• Range from 1/64 to 4 in. (steps of 1/64th )

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Four Systems of Drill Sizes

b)Number

• Range from #1 (.228 in.) to #97 (.0059 in.)

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Four Systems of Drill Sizes

d)Letter

• Range from A to Z (A = .234 in., Z = .413in.)

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Four Systems of Drill Sizes

e)Millimeter (Metric)

• Straight-shank standard (0.5 to 20 mm)

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Types of Drills

• Wide variety manufactured to suitspecific drilling operations and materials

• Design of drills vary

• Number and width of flutes

• Amount of helix or rake angle of flutes

• Shape of land or margin

• Shape of flute: straight or helical

• Whether helix is right-hand or left-hand

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Twist Drills

• Manufactured from four main materials• Carbon-steel drills

• High-speed steel drills – Uncoated

• High-speed steel drills – Coated

• High Cobalt Content

• Cemented-carbide drills

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Twist Drills

• Carbon-steel drills• Used in hobby shops not for machine shop

work

• Lowest cost of all drills

• Cutting edges wear down quickly

• High-speed steel drills - Uncoated

• Used extensively in machine shop work

• Replaced High Carbon Steel Drills

• Cutting edges withstand more heat andwear

• Most commonly used

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Twist Drills• High-speed steel drills - Coated

• Used extensively in machine shop work

• Supplements uncoated High Speed SteelDrills

• Cutting edges withstand much more heatand wear

Black Oxide Titanium Nitride

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Twist Drills

• High Cobalt High-Speed Steel drills• Used in machine shop work

• 5% Cobalt allows cutting edges to withstandmore heat and wear

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Twist Drills

• Cemented-carbide drills• Operated at high speeds, withstand higher

heat, and can drill hard materials

• Carbide Tipped

• Solid Carbide

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General-Purpose Drill

• Has two Helical flutes

• Designed to perform well on wide variety ofmaterials, equipment and job conditions

• Can be made to suit different conditions andmaterials by varying point angle, speeds andfeeds

• Straight-shank drills called general-purposejobbers length drills

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Low-Helix Drill

• Developed primarily to drill brass andthin materials

• Used to drill shallow holes in somealuminum and magnesium alloys

• Can remove large volume of chipsformed by high rates of penetration

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High-Helix Drills

• Designed for drilling deep holes inaluminum, copper, die-cast material,and other metals

• Material where chips have tendency to jam

• High helix angle (35º to 45º)

• Wider flutes assist in clearing chips fromhole

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Core Drill

• Three or four flutes

• Used to enlarge cored, drilled, orpunched holes

• Produced in sizes from ¼ to 3 in.

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Oil Hole Drills

• Have one or two oil holes running fromshank to cutting point• Compressed air, oil, or cutting fluid can be

forced through when deep holes beingdrilled

• Cutting fluid cools drill's cutting edgesand flushes chips out of hole

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Straight-Fluted Drills

• Recommended for drilling operations onsoft materials such as brass, bronze,copper and various types of plastic

• Straight flute prevents drill from drawingitself into material while cutting

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Deep Hole (Gun) Drills

• Used for producing holes fromapproximately 3/8 to 3 in. in diameterand as deep as 20 feet

• Consists of round, tubular stem, on endis fastened flat, two-fluted drilling insert

• Cutting fluid forced through center ofstem to flush chips from hole

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Spade Drills

• Cutting end is flat blade with twocutting lips

• Easily replaced or sharpened• Available in wide range of sizes

• Micro to 12 inch diameter

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Hard-Steel Drill

• Used for drilling hardened steel

• Made from heat-resistant alloy

• As brought into contact with workpiece,fluted, triangular point softens metal byfriction and then removes softened metal

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Step Drills

• Used to drill and countersink or drilland counterbore different sizes ofholes in one operation

• Usually has two or more diameters

• Each size or step separated by squareor angular shoulder

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Saw-Type Hole Cutter

• Cylindrical-diameter cutterwith twist drill in center toprovide guide for cuttingteeth on hole cutter

• Made in various diameters

• Used for drillingholes in thin materials

• Little burr produced

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Procedure to Grind a Drill

1. Wear approved safety glasses

2. Check grinding wheel and dress it to

sharpen and/or straighten wheel face

3. Adjust grinder tool rest so it is within

.060 in. of wheel face

4. Examine drill point and margins for

wear

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5. Hold drill near point with one hand,

other hand hold shank of drill slightly

lower than point

6. Move drill so it is approximately 59º to

face of grinding wheel

7. Hold lip or cutting edge of drill parallel

to grinder toolrest

8. Bring lip of drill against grinding wheel

and slowly lower drill shank

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Drilling Facts and Problems

• Excessive speed

• Excessive clearance

• Excessive feed

• Insufficient clearance

• Cutting lips with unequal angles

• Cutting lips with unequal in length

• Loading and galling

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Excessive speed will cause wear at outer cornersof drill. This permits fewer regrinds of drill dueto amount of stock to be removed inreconditioning.Discoloration is warning sign of excess speed.

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Excessive clearance results in lack of supportbehind cutting edge with quick dulling and poortool life. Despite initial free cutting action.Clearance angle behind cutting lip for generalpurposes is 8º to 12º.

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Excessive feed sets up abnormal end thrust,which causes breakdown of chisel point andcutting lips. Failure induced by this cause willbe broken or split drill.

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Insufficient clearance causes the drill to rubbehind the cutting edge. It will make the drillwork hard, generate heat, and increase endthrust. This results in poor holes and drillbreakage.

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The web is the tapered central portion of thebody that joins the lands.

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Cutting lips with unequal angles will cause onecutting edge to work harder than the other. Thiscauses torsion strain, bellmouth holes,rapid dulling, and poor tool life.

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Cutting lips unequal in length causechisel point to be off center axis and willdrill holes oversize by approximatelytwice the amountof eccentricity.

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Loading and galling iscaused by poor chipremoval with insufficientdissipation of heat so thatmaterial anneals itself tothe cutting edge and flute.This condition frequentlyresults from using wrongdrills for the job orinadequate cutting fluidapplication.

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Characteristics of aProperly Ground Drill

• Length of both cutting lips equal

• Angle of both cutting lips be the same

• Lips should be free from nicks or wear

• No sign of wear on margin

Note: Resharpen drill if it does not meetall of these requirements.

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When to Regrind

• Color and shape of chips change

• More drilling pressure required

• Chips turn blue because of excessiveheat

• Top of hole out of round

• Poor finish produced in hole

• Drill chatters when it contacts metal

• Drill squeals and may jam in hole

• Excessive burr left around drilled hole

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Factors CausingPremature Dulling of Drill

• Drill speed may be too high forhardness of material being cut

• Feed may be too heavy and overloadcutting lips

• Feed may be too light and cause lips toscrape rather than cut

• May be hard spots or scale on worksurface

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More Factors

• Work or drill may not be supportedproperly, resulting in springing andchatter

• Drill point may be incorrect for materialbeing drilled

• Finish on lips may be poor

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• Remove drill from wheel withoutmoving position of body or hands,rotate drill one-half turn, and grind theother cutting edge

• Check angle of drill point and length oflips with drill point gage

• Repeat operations 6-10 until cuttingedges are sharp and lands are freefrom wear nicks

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