Schwanog Center Drilling System for Improved Productivity

Improved productivity Floyd Automatic adds new Schwanog Centre Drill System to portfolio

2024-08-20 Source: Floyd Automatic 2 min Reading Time

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Floyd Automatic Tooling now offers the Schwanog interchangeable indexable centre drilling system. Designed to enhance productivity and precision, this system ensures accurate hole positioning and consistent surface finishes.

The Schwanog Centre Drill designs range from a 60 to 140-degree point angle.(Source: Floyd Automation) — The Schwanog Centre Drill designs range from a 60 to 140-degree point angle.
(Source: Floyd Automation)

Now available from Floyd Automatic Tooling is the new Schwanog interchangeable indexable centre drilling system. Developed to improve productivity, precision levels and positioning of drilled holes, the new centre drill system is ideal for preventing drills from drifting and maintaining a chamfer on the drilled hole.

Suitable for everything from one-offs to high-precision series production runs, the new Schwanog Centre Drilling system has been designed to ensure consistently high surface finishes, tool life and performance. Furthermore, the new Schwanog Centre Drills provide a high repeatability of ±0.01 mm for insert changeovers which is credited to an innovative insert pocket seat that securely locates and clamps the insert with astounding precision and stability. The tool body is available in a range of lengths and diameters to suit the end users' application requirements, providing flexibility to accommodate various machine tools and application types.

The ‘quick change’ design of the inserts results in less time spent changing inserts, providing users with a greater machine utilisation rates. Schwanog claims that when combined with the innovative tool geometry, the rapid-change system on this new drilling system guarantees a 40 % increase in productivity.

The Schwanog Centre Drill designs range from a 60 to 140-degree point angle and depending on the material to be machined, a wide variety of carbide grades and coatings can be applied. This extensive range of carbide grades and advanced coating technology makes the Schwanog Centre Drills suitable for various application types across a wide range of materials, including aluminium, brass, copper, steel, stainless steel and heat-resistant aerospace alloys like Inconel and titanium.

To further enhance the flexibility of the Schwanog Centre Drill, customers can request interchangeable drill bodies to suit both left-hand and right-hand operations. By allowing end users to utilise the same toolholder for left and right-hand applications, the Schwanog Centre Drill system epitomises flexibility and enhances ease of use. Upon request, the new Schwanog Centre Drill system can be ordered with edge preparation to reduce potential chatter that may occur with challenging material types.

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