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By Angele Condry


Gun drills are a special kind of drills that use highly compressed air or other suitable fluids to cut into deep holes of depth to diameter ratios that surpasses 400. These drills don't have helical features like the classic drills, but instead they feature a hardened tip on the front that is where the fluid comes out of and hits the cutting face.

These rods have a hole on their front hardened tip from which the fluid flows at high enough speeds to cut strong materials with remarkable accuracy. The chips that are produced by the cutting process are removed through the use of coolants that also flow inside the bored hole. This also helps keep the drilling temperatures at a lower than melting level.

Features

Gun drill manufacturers pay special attention to the drill tip material as it is the point that receives the most severe fluid pressure. In order for this tip to have prolonged lifetimes and stay free of deformations, it is made out of strong metal alloys or even composite materials.

There is no other type of drill that can compete with the astonishing cutting rates achieved by gun drills. At high speed modes, quality gun drills can bore steel metals at a rate of 75 cm per minute or more. This is combined with unparalleled cutting accuracy that produces cuts of perfect surface finishing that normally won't need any hand polishing in most cases.

Uses

Gun Barrels Making

The most obvious use scenario for the gun drilling machines is for the drilling of gun barrels, which is where this specialized tool got its name from. Gun drills are ideal for the boring of such long holes into rigid metal materials.

The accurate cutting of gun drills makes it possible for very intricate metalwork and produces a smooth finishing on the inner side of the barrel that rarely even needs any polishing at all. This is especially important for guns as bullets that travel at very high speeds could have their trajectory affected by even the slightest deviation.

Creating Molds

Another case that gun drilling machines can come in handy is that of the molds manufacturing. As molten metals have to flow into casting molds through a deep hole, gun drills are used to make that opening.

Tool Manufacturing

Some special purposed tools such as the extension fitters found in every toolbox wouldn't be producible without the help of gun drill machines. As these tools are usually made out of chromium and vanadium steel alloys, it is very hard to drill holes in them at high levels of precision. Gun drilling can even achieve polygonal features for torque keys etc.

Musical Instruments

Last, gun drilling machines are extensively used in the music instrument manufacturing industry and especially for wind instruments that require deep holes of small diameter. These instruments can be flutes, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets, ocarinas and reeds. As most of these instruments are made out of brass and other soft metals, gun drill machines are required to work with precision and delicacy as the slightest deformation will result in wrong tonal performance.




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