The 5000 Series AutoDrill is offered for heavy duty or large hole operations or when the most robust and reliable self stroking AutoDrill unit is necessary. The features on the 5000 series unit make it very simple to maintain and operate. Its adjustment methods are easy to understand. Although it is an extremely capable unit, many find it extremely simple to use. Typically, a customer will ask for a standard electric motor drive. The unit is stroked by a small volume of shop air. This keeps the operating costs to a minimum. Because of its efficiency, your costs are kept low. Whether this helps you make more product in the same amount of time (cost savings) or simply helps you to keep up with high volume requests (higher production), the 5000 series self-feeder unit is an excellent choice.
Some of the many uses for the 5000 Series AutoDrill are:
- Plate and structural steel hole drilling operations
- Pipe drilling
- Drilling multiple holes with a single unit
- Flow Drilling or Form Drilling of holes
- High thrust applications (up to 1500 lbs. on standard shop air)
- Deep hole operations up to 6.000″
- Depth controlled drilling applications
- Operations requiring all position mounting
- Operations requiring through the spindle coolant
- Morse Taper tooling requirements
- Available with air motor drives for explosion-proof operations using inert gas