Engineering Tutorials

Reaming: The holes that are produced by drilling are rarely straight and cylindrical in form. To produce accurate and smooth holes, the drilled holes are reamed by a tool called reamer. The reamer is a cutting tool having several cutting edges in straight or helix shape.

Boring: Boring is the operation of truing and enlarging a previously drilled hole by means of a single point cutting tool. Boring is done on drilling machine to perform the following tasks on a hole already drilled: