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Drilling Machine – Types & Working
A drilling machine is a tool which we use to cut something.
Drilling
machines consist of a cutting tool attachment, called the drill bit. This part
is the core of a drilling machine, and its tip pierces the material and drills
through it.
There is
a base which supports this drill bit and rotates it.
So
the fundamental process of drilling is rotating the
drill bit while pressing it against a material. This results in cutting or
piercing of the material.
A
drilling machine can also be used to make large holes in comparatively softer
materials.
Using
special drill bits one can make holes in glass.
Drilling
machine is classified depending upon its mechanism and its applications
1. Drill/Rotary Drill:
This is a
general hand-held electric drill machine, having a normal drill chuck. It is
used for drilling in wood, metal and plastics. also used for screw driving.
2. Impact Drill/Percussion Drill:
This is
similar to normal drill machine as mentioned above, but it has an additional
gear mechanism as shown below
When you
turn the rotary switch to impact drill mode it will engage a pulsating gear to
the drill spindle and make the drill bit to move forward and backward towards
the wall, which works like a chisel while it rotates to break the stone and
hardened cement.
Impact
drills are used for multiple applications like drilling on brick/masonry wall,
concrete (without reinforcement) when you put the machine on impact mode.
You can
use it as a normal drill for drilling on wood, metals, plastics and screw
driving when you put it in normal drill mode.
3. Rotary Hammer/Hammer drill/SDS hammer/Combi hammer etc:
These
drill machines are entirely different from the above and it has pneumatic
hammering mechanism with a piston and cylinder to produce higher hammering
force.
These
drills have a Special Direct System (SDS) instead of a normal drill chuck,
which enable key less fixing of drill bit in the machine (just push it in will
get locked)
Rotary
hammers are mainly used by construction professionals and contractors for
drilling and breaking of Masonry/Concrete/RCC/High-strength Concrete surfaces.
These
drill machines come in 2 or 3 modes, in 2 mode drill you can use Rotary
drilling and Hammer drilling functions, and in 3 mode drill, you have a hammer
only mode and an additional function called chiselling/chipping can be used for
breaking and demolition of concrete/masonry surfaces.
4. Drill Driver:
These are
similar to rotary drills, but having an additional torque control clutch
mechanism for controlling the tightness of screws/bolts.
Drill
drivers are mostly used for screwing on wood and metal surfaces and it can do
normal drilling work.
Drill
drivers mostly available in Battery powered(cordless) version for convenience.
5. Bench drills:
These are
conventional drill machines mounted on a bench or floor. it has a belt drive
and standard chuck. Used for heavy duty drilling on metals and wood.
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