Cross Slide Boring Bar Holder (Shop Made Heavy Duty Lathe Upgrade!)

HAL (the big lathe) is finally getting a much needed upgrade. With bigger (and crazier!) parts being required for the MEGADRILL project, we had to build a cross-slide toolholder to let us drill and bore much deeper. The toolholder you'll see in this video was originally designed to hold a 60mm shank drill, but got upgraded further to run the KM80 "Godzilla" boring bar as well. We had a bunch of problems on this one, but managed to get the job done!

Huge shout out to all the guys over in our fab shop for their help on this one! Definitely a full team effort.

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About HAL Heavy Duty:
We're a real life machine shop for a 60 year old drilling company located in Central Qld, Australia. Our job is to keep rigs running in the field, constantly making the gear they need to get the job done. We run two CNC's, manual repair lathes, mills and are constantly having to make weird and wonderful shop made tools to get the job done. We're a little shop that takes on big projects. The latest is our MEGADRILL project where we're manufacturing a 3.0m drill bit that'll weigh upward of 20 tonnes. We release one video a week (usually on Friday/Saturday) to give you all a window into our heavy duty world.


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