New automatic boring and facing head

[Plastikosmd]

this turns your mill or drill press into a percise boring (down) or facing(across) machine. It mounts to the quill and drives from the spindle. It is fully automatic. Set the desired depth of cut and hit switch and it will face across a surface(think of it like a lathe mounted vertical.) the best part is boring a hole. It has a handwheel that u adjust when the mill or drill is running! Set cut, bore, dial it out a bit more, bore etc all under power. Finally you can use the automatic function and combine boring to bore a tapered hole. Other uses, bore, face and cut an o ring groove in the ID or OD of the hole/face etc.

These ones are said to be one of the best. New they are approaching or past 10k$.



Here is a video of the typical auto heads. All are well made, chandler, narex etc. in these you set the rate and grab a knurled fitting on the head(when spinning!) to get it to feed. Mine you have a traditional crank(better imho)

But this gives u an idea. Here they are facing a surface in the first part of the video. To bore you would grab and release the knurled part a click or 2, bore, grab to adjust outward, bore etc

 

[mowkep]

See below.

 

[mowkep]

Never used had or used one. I can't believe they are fly cutting with it. Weird. I've used Criterion boring heads and Devlieg bars. Love the Devlieg bars. Now I circle mill everything

 

[Plastikosmd]

ok so screw photobucket, trying to do my own thing, hosting myself attempt...
Think of it as a better mousetrap for flycutting/boring/taper boring/cutting relief. You can face a bore without losing your center on the bore. You can also cut the opposite face on the table side while in the bore, do your boring and put in a relief or o ring groove etc. not to say it all can't be done using individual tooling, this just a bit more slick

 

[Plastikosmd]

Here is it functioning (how you adjust boring under power- YouTube link)

Shutting off z axis feed
Unlock
Adjust cut outward
Lock
Turn on knee feed
Bore

 

[mowkep]

Very nice.