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Technology of Machine Tools

6th Edition

Krar • Gill • Smid

The Jig Borer and

Jig Grinder
Section 13

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Jig Borer
• Developed primarily to overcome problem
of accurately locating and producing holes
in precise locations
• Very important tool before age of
computer-controlled machining centers
– Repeatedly position holes to within 20
millionths of an inch
– Has reduced use of jig borers to point, no
longer manufactured
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Technology of Machine Tools

6th Edition

Krar • Gill • Smid

The Jig Borer

Unit 73

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Objectives
• Identify and state the purposes of the main
operative parts of a jig borer
• Use various accessories and work-holding
devices for setting up and boring holes
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Jig Borer
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Jig Borer Parts

• Variable pitch pulley drive
– Operated by pushing button on electric control
panel to provide spindle with variable speed
range from 60 to 2250 r/min
• Quill housing
– Can be raised or lowered to accommodate
various sizes of work if first quill housing
clamp loosened and quill housing vertical
positioning handle turned
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Jig Borer Parts

• Brake lever
– Manually operated to stop rotation of spindle
• Rapid feed handwheel
– Allows spindle to be raised or lowered rapidly
by hand
• Friction clutch
– May be used to engage or disengage handfeed
of the quill
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Jig Borer Parts

• Graduated downfeed dial
– Reads distance of vertical spindle travel
– Vernier scale: thousands of an inch
• Adjustable stop for hole depths
– Adjusted to allow spindle to move to
predetermined depth for drilling or boring hole
• Spindle
– Revolves inside quill and supplies drive for
cutting tools
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Jig Borer Parts

• Reference scales
– Longitudinal and crossfeed
– Serve as reference points in moving table into
position
• Graduated dials
– Allow table to be positioned quickly and
accurately
– Uses micro-setting verniers on longitudinal and
crossfeed screw handwheels (within .0001 in.)
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To Insert Shanks in the Spindle

1. Taper shank on tool being inserted and hole in
spindle must be perfectly clean
2. Protect taper shanks from finger perspiration
3. Avoid inserting shanks too tightly, especially
when spindle warmer than inserted shank
4. When removing or replacing tools, apply brake
firmly with left hand
• Wrench should be held carefully
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Accessories and Small Tools

• Wide variety of accessories enable jig borer
to meet three basic requirements
– Accuracy, versatility, and productivity
• Drilling accessories
– Key-type and keyless chuck hold smaller
straight-shank spotting tools, drills and reamers
– Collets used to hold larger tools
• Setscrew in collet tightened against flat on tool
shank eliminating twisting and scuffing
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Single-Point Boring
• Solid boring bar
– Fitted with adjusting screw that advances
toolbit over relatively short range
– Rigid, so useful in boring deep holes
• Swivel block boring chuck
– Provides greater range of adjustment
– Better visibility to operator while boring
– Disadvantage: graduations for adjusting tool
travel vary depending on length of cutting tool
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Single-Point Boring
• Offset boring chuck
– Permits cutting tool to be moved outward
at 90º to spindle axis of machine
– Possible to perform operations such as boring,
counterboring, facing, undercutting and
machining outside diameters
• DeVlieg microbore boring bar
– Equipped with micrometer vernier scale
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More Tools
• Single-Point Boring Tools
– Most accurate method of generating accurate
hole location
– Wide variety of cutting tools
• High-speed steel with brazed, cemented-carbide tips
• Collets and chucks
– Assortment available for jig borer spindle to
hold straight-shank spotting tools, drills, and
precision end-cutting reamers
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Reamers
• Used in jig boring for bringing hole to size
quickly
• Rose (fluted) reamer
– Used after hole bored and provides accurate
method of sizing hole (remove .001-.003 in)
• Precision end-cutting reamers
– Provide fastest method of locating and sizing
holes to within ±.0005 in
– Acts as boring tool and reamer