Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Apr. 2011
The Drill, also called wick, is a piece of metal cutting edge, which is always used linked to a tool mechanical called drill or any other related machine. The latter is the one that rotates the drill bit and its main use is for make holes or holes in different materials.
Mostly, it is the industries that use the drill, meanwhile, it is common for each industry to adapt the drill to its particular use, therefore, there is a great variety of drills on the market.
Meanwhile, the design of the drills must consider the material to be removed, that is, for example, the hardness that it presents in order to define the velocity and the form that best suits the material on which you will work.
It should be noted that the edge of the drill becomes dull with recurrent use, therefore, it is essential, to contribute to its care, to sharpen it from time to time and thus recover its initial cutting capacity.
There are different ways to sharpen a drill, through sharpening machines, this type is the most common in the industries. machining, although it is also possible to sharpen them by hand using small grinders that have grinding wheels fine; this type of manual sharpening requires, of course, a
Among the most common types of drill bits, the following stand out: Long drill (It is used especially for those places where the normal drill does not reach, such is the case when you have to make a hole inside a team or piece), Super long bit (used at the instance of the need to drill walls to pass cables), center drill (specially designed to make centering points of an axis and thus facilitate turning), paddle bit (designed for use in wood), deep hole or shotgun bit, digging bit (used in the drilling of oil wells) and normal twist drill.
On the other hand, the term drill is used in the language current to name a insect parasite typical of coffee.
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