Short Boring Video

One of the advantages of having a horizontal boring mill type spindle in your radial drill is shown. With no quill to get in the way the entire spindle can be fed through the hole(s) you need to bore. I have a 2" Criterion style boring head mounted in the end of the spindle with a 5/16" HSS bit in the cross hole. This makes a very rigid set up and was able to bore all three holes with the lower hole requiring nearly 12" of overhang. Spindle diameter is 2-3/8". As far as I know only Carlton and American Tool Works used this kind of spindle in their radial drills.

[@EverettsWorkshop]

That's a nice setup, even with a ready-installed chip catcher underneath! Very cool.

[@outsidescrewball]

just luv the radial arm drill unit…..nice

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Nice one Ken . You have a good radial drill there .

[@TrPrecisionMachining]

good job

[@stovepipe666]

Looks to be cutting well

[@captcarlos]

I was hoping to see the Horizontal all set up but you work with what ya got.
Set up looked great, no chatter heard.
Looking forward to the HBM..

[@andrewdalgarno5322]

My ATW Radial is like that!

[@DolezalPetr]

sounds nice

[@sambrose1]

Before I read the discription I was like that looks like the radial arms at work.

[@Rustinox]

Well, that's something you don't see every day.

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

Inventive to say the least using a RAD to do the boring.

[@hmw-ms3tx]

I've used this radial drill to do quite a bit of boring, especially before I got my horizontal mill. This particular drill came with the boring option that was available from the factory. It's just a lever and when you move it from 'drilling' to 'boring' it cuts the feeds by a factor of four. It gives as low as .001" per rev which can give a pretty nice surface finish.

[@jeremycable51]

Hey could you show a kinda how to on setting up to bore with the radial arm drill there’s no good videos on it

[@josephwaldner7752]

Wow that's boring :)