Field Drilling and Boring
Furmanite provides a range of drilling and boring machines for use in a variety of applications. Examples of this service are drilling holes for tapping studded or bolted connections or drilling clearance holes for fastening together components. Boring processes are used where greater precision is required, such as line boring for bearings. Fine finish and close tolerances are achieved in all these applications.
Typical drilling operations include:
- Stud drilling
- Screw cutting
- Core sampling
- Holes for tapping threads
- Trepanning
- Straight or taper boring and reaming
- Clearance holes
- Reaming for dowels
- Pockets for probes and thermocouples
- Removal of snapped or seized studs
- Penetrations on bulkheads
Typical boring operations include:
- Bearing housings
- Cylinder liners
- Fabricated piles to remove ovality
- Line bore bearing blocks
- Line bore knuckle joints or pin joints
- Machine spigot faces for bores
