Horizontal Boring

Our Horizontal Boring Mill is used to enlarge holes in various kinds of materials using a single-point cutting tool. In the horizontal boring process, the workpiece is mounted on the positionable table of the machine. The boring bar rotates to cut on a horizontal axis, much like the function of a conventional horizontal milling machine.

What Is A Boring Mill Used For?

The horizontal milling process is primarily used to drill/enlarge holes in metal fabrications, often in applications where other processes would be cost-prohibitive, inefficient or inaccurate. Key uses include:

Roughing/Finishing Internal and External Surfaces. Specialty tooling can be utilized on the boring mill to roughen or smooth the surface of a cut hole.

Boring A Range Materials. As a physical shearing process, bore milling can be used to enlarge holes in materials that are not well suited to thermal or electric-based hole-making methods.

Wide Variety of Tooling Options. Boring, reaming, turning, threading, facing, milling, grooving, recessing, and other machining operations.

Why Use Large Format Horizontal Boring?

For bigger and more complex metal component fabrication, size definitely matters. A few advantages of horizontal boring include:

Capable of Handling Large Parts. When fabricating oversize and heavy workpieces, boring mills excel. With a very large “configurable envelope,” our boring mill platform accommodates much larger workpieces than a typical machine shop horizontal mill.

Precision and Consistence. The design of our boring mill system minimizes tool deflection to help ensure accuracy and repeatability in the boring process.