CNC Precision Grinding for Consistent Performance
Our premium HSS center drill bits are manufactured using CNC precision grinding, ensuring uniform step heights, razor-sharp cutting edges, and accurate tip centering. This precision guarantees clean, accurate drilling for creating centers in metal parts, with minimal vibration and maximum stability-especially important during high-speed lathe operations. Whether you're drilling soft metals or hardened alloys, these bits maintain superior performance and reliability.
Vacuum Heat Treatment for Superior Durability
To enhance the tool's longevity, each center drill bit undergoes vacuum heat treatment, increasing both surface hardness and core toughness. This treatment significantly improves resistance to wear and heat, making them ideal for drilling through tough materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, and other metals. The enhanced thermal resistance ensures these drill bits maintain sharpness and structural integrity during demanding lathe operations.
Ultra-Fine Polishing for Smoother Drilling
The ultra-fine polished surface of our HSS center drill bits reduces friction, enhances chip evacuation, and minimizes heat generation during deep or repetitive drilling. This polishing treatment also protects both the drill bit and the workpiece surface, ensuring smooth, precise drilling without surface damage-particularly when working with soft metals or thermoplastics.
Refined Metallurgy & Thermal Optimization for Extended Tool Life
1. Advanced Steel Purification: EAF + LF + VD + RS ESR
Our center drill bits are crafted from ultra-clean high-speed steel (HSS) through advanced metallurgical processes such as Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), Ladle Refining (LF), Vacuum Degassing (VD), and Electro-Slag Remelting (ESR). This purification process reduces impurities and significantly enhances the toughness and reliability of the drill bits, making them highly effective for drilling through hard metals and layered composites.
2. Integrated Thermal Optimization for High Performance
A combination of quenching, cryogenic treatment, and precision tempering increases hardness to HRC 67, while maintaining resistance to chipping and cracking. This ensures that our center drill bits remain highly reliable in high-speed and high-pressure lathe conditions, making them perfect for precision lathe work in automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing industries.
3. RS ESR Edge Enhancement Technology
Through Rapid Solidification ESR processing, the cutting-edge structure is reinforced with uniformly distributed carbides and cobalt, further enhancing edge retention and wear resistance. This leads to consistent performance even in high-temperature, high-load lathe operations, making these bits perfect for extreme machining environments.
Customizable Engineering Options to Meet Your Needs
1. Material Flexibility: M35-Centric Configuration
While we offer M2 and M42 variants, we prioritize M35 HSS for its superior hardness-to-toughness ratio, making it ideal for metal drilling, where both edge strength and wear resistance are critical for precise lathe work.
2. Tailored Step Geometry & Coatings
We offer a wide range of customizable options for step sizes, flute lengths, helix angles, and coating choices to meet specific industrial needs. Optional PVD coatings like TiN, TiAlN, or TiCN further enhance thermal resistance, reduce friction, and extend tool life in high-load lathe applications.
Key Design Adaptations for Precision Lathe Drilling
1. Multi-Step Flute Optimization
The flutes between each step are carefully engineered to provide efficient chip removal and thermal management, reducing the risk of clogging during high-speed lathe drilling, especially when working with thermoplastics or thin metal sheets. This ensures consistent, smooth drilling even at higher RPMs.
2. Engineered Cutting Angles for Stability
The step transitions and tip geometry are optimized to reduce axial force, improve stability, and prevent material deformation. This design is especially useful when drilling soft metals or thin-walled parts, ensuring a clean and accurate finish with minimal material distortion.
3. Performance-Enhancing Coatings
Our center drill bits come with TiAlN coatings for high-temperature lathe operations and TiCN coatings for extreme wear environments. These coatings significantly improve tool lifespan, allowing for reliable, multi-diameter drilling even in challenging industrial conditions.