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   migraine | Jul 05, 2004 10:34pm | #1

   I personally own a pneumatic "Gannomat" 7 spindle for the past 16 years and it has never needed service work.  I have used many other brands and they are all about the same.  Sounds like the one you are talking about has a manual lever.  They work fine, but, if you can, consider a pnematic style.  If I could only keep 2 pieces of machinery, they would be my table saw and the boring machine.  

   Some boring machines also have inter-changable heads for drilling "euro style" hinges.  Such as for Blum 35mm hinges.  Most of these hinge heads bore around 5 holes in various configurations.  Some of these are for various types of K.D. fittings 

   The one thing that I don't like on some machines is when the "reference pin" is attached to the fence, not the boring head.  This make it a little harder for keeping your tolerences on long boring runs.  If you can, purchase extra right and left extension fences and 10 or so movable stops.  This will increase your speed and accuracy on line drilling and you will rarely need to use the pin stops the are attached to the head/fence

   
   

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   Edited 7/5/2004 3:35 pm ET by migraine