What type of HP does the drilling machine have?
What type of clearance do you have at the end of the tube? Can you shift
the tool 1" and have the last bit drill / deburr air or is there a clearance
issue?
It may come down to the fact that you can do most of teh holes in a single
shot and then have to either drill or clean up a hole or two by hand because
you can't simply move the head to where it needs to be...
Of course, there is the option of a 30 spindle head that has 15 spindels
across from another 15 spindles spaced at 2" so all you have to do is drill,
stroke the table in the X or Y access across the holes to clear the tube and
deburr... But we are talking about a serious drilling machine now. Not
even sure an old Bridgepirt could handle the stresses involved. Might have
to build a custom machine to do that. Maybe direct drive the head with a
motor or two and build a manual slide aparatus?
Wayne,
Another way of avoiding burr inside the tubing, is to punch the holes
rather than drill them.
You will need to make a shoe horn type die. I have seen them to give
amazing results.
Rathin Sinha
San Stampings Pvt. Ltd.
Wayne,
Another way of avoiding burr inside the tubing, is to punch the holes
rather than drill them.
You will need to make a shoe horn type die. I have seen them to give
amazing results.
Rathin Sinha
San Stampings Pvt. Ltd.
Wayne,
Another way of avoiding burr inside the tubing, is to punch the holes
rather than drill them.
You will need to make a shoe horn type die. I have seen them to give
amazing results.
Rathin Sinha
San Stampings Pvt. Ltd.
I've used the handheld deburring tools for years, and they're great for most
tasks, but the internal edges of holes in tubing are a little too complex to
allow them to be very effective.
I can't help but wonder (about well, lots of things), if a spinning wire
brush wouldn't clean up the holes nicely. Check with Tom at Ohio Brush for
the availability of different bristle materials and sizes.
This would be relatively severe duty for the longevity of the brush, so
cheap imported retail store brushes wouldn't provide good results.
This would be a second operation, but a brush (those spiraled tube brushes)
mounted in a spinning drill press chuck and poked into the drilled holes,
would probably do a good job of deburring, and possibly add a small radius
to the edges of the holes in aluminum tubing.
Ideally, you'd want to drill the holes with a method to minimize the
break-through burrs if at all possible.
Steel or SS bristles would probably clean the holes fairly efficiently. I
would think that poking the brush into the holes would be more effective
than running it thru the length of the tube.
If I were confronted with this problem in *steel* tubing, I'd probably use a
Dremel stone or sanding drum, but if a miniature flap wheel was available,
that'd probably work better.
WB
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"Wild Bill" wrote in
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That got me thinking. Weiler Corporation "
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makes abrasive brushes that are designed specifically for deburring
parts. I've used them in auto operations on a machining center with great
success. Running them by hand would be just as effective.
Dave
Because he is working with a tube that will accept another tube immediately
after the holes are drilled, I suggested he use either a drill or preferably
a reamer from the end of the tube with a tool extension rod as needed...
That way the inside of the tube is guaranteed to match the ID he needs and
the burr is effectively removed.
As someone else also mentioned, making sure the feed rate of the drilling
machine is controlled could almost eliminate the burr as well. The bit
wants to "jump" through the last little bit of material and that cuases a
heavy burr. If the bit was kept at a constant (slow) feed rate, then the
bit would not "plow" through and the burr would be wafer thin and minimized.
Even a solid "cleanout" rod could probably be used to deburr the pieces at
that point rather than a reamer...
Poor tube is gonna be sanded, drilled, reamed, poked and burned to a crisp
by the time we all get done with it, huh?
Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
(800) 871-5022
I know these work well on flat or almost flat surfaces, but he is doing the
drilling in a rathe small tube. These devices don't really work well in
those circumstances.
Joe, I disagree. Im my experience the cogsdill burraway tools work
well when deburring holes that go into or out of a curved surface. In
fact, my first experienvc with these tools was using them to deburr
holes in tubing.
ERS
Eric,
I can agree that they work well on some tubing, but I think this application
is a rather small tube. In other words, the ID curve is probably small
enough to make the deburring tool hit only on the "sides" of the hole but
not the "top" and "bottom" if viewing the tube horizontally.
The cutter works on a spring action if we are both talking about the same
device... And more pressure is applied to the thin wall aluminum tube when
it is sprung in farther as would happen on a tight radius of a small
diameter tube...
Then again, I've been known to be wrong often so all of my theory-thinking
above may be worthless.
Regardless, I think the best bet to deburr the inside of a small tube is to
run a precision reamer or drill down the tube from the open end. As long as
that tool is .001 to .002 oversized as compared to the second tube that will
be inserted into the first that was drilled, you will get a great fit and
all the burrs should disappear more quickly.
That method will work on any tube that has a semi-smooth interior as long as
you can get a reamer or drill with an extension long enough... And it won't
really matter what the burr size is so a feed controlled drilling machine
might not even be necessary.
Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
Hey Joe, not to be contrary or anything but I just finished a job that
had .244" dia holes going through a .500 dia aluminum part. Deburring
the hole with a regular countersink doesn't work bery well. But the
spring loaded Cogsdill Burraway worked great. The secret is using a
tool that fits the drilled closely and messing with the setscrew that
controls tension on the blade. These joles were on the O.D. of the
part. I.D. holes can be harder to deburr right so your suggestion of
having as small a burr as possible by controlling the feed is a good
one. I have rounded the first cutting edge on the Burraway tool. This
is so I can deburr the inside of the hole without doing anything the
the outside. Sometimes the jobs I do require minimal visible edge
breaks for cosmetic reasoms.
ERS
Great to learn about these tools from someone who has used them! Thank you
for the insight. We are always getting inquiries on hole drilling (that's
what we do!) and deburring operations... One of these days, I'll simply buy
one of their tools and test it on various materials, tubes, etc. for some
first-hand experience too.
Cogsdill makes a burnishing tool which is pretty cool. We use ot for some
oil impregnated bushings on our machine... I am pretty sure they are made
to be used on a drill press, etc. but I've put a handle on them and use them
manually. Great quality tooling IMHO.
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