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Medical Engineering

Advanced Surgical Tools Need Deep Hole Drilling

Perfect Bore Manufacturing (PBM) supplies cannulated billets in titanium and 17/4ph with bores of 2.00mm or less for orthopaedic surgeons employing advanced guide wire techniques. PBM's ability to deep hole drill exotic materials, and expertise in gun-drilling honing and CNC turning, is in demand from many other industry sectors, including aerospace and automotive.

The company can offer bore production and finishing from 1.50mm diameter to 300mm diameter.

Gundrilling from 1.50mm up to 40mm diameter through 450mm to 2000mm long billets on centreline drilling machines and 2.50mm up to 40mm diameter on indexable table machines.

Larger bores can also be accommodated on dedicated ejector boring machines.

PBM's temperature controlled honing facilities cover both horizontal and vertical machines, with a capacity from 1.50mm up to 200mm.

Superfinishing capacity covers 6mm diameter components as well as 60mm diameter. Parts with bore tolerances to 0.001mm accuracy are achievable, as are finishes of 0.05Ra.

www.pbm-ltd.com

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Perfect Bore Manufacturing Ltd

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex