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Drill bushing
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Main page A drill bushing, also known as a jig bushing,[1] is a tool used in metalworking jigs to guide
Contents cutting tools, most commonly drill bits. Other tools that are commonly used in a drill bushing
Featured content include counterbores, countersinks, and reamers. They are designed to guide, position, and
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support the cutting tool.[2]
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Donate to Wikipedia In the USA, Customary sized bushings are standardized via ASME B94.33 and metric bushings are
Wikipedia store standardized via ASME B94.33.1.[3][4] There are over 50,000 standard configurations of customary
Interaction sized bushings.[2]
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Community portal 1 Types
Recent changes 1.1 Press-fit bushings
Contact page 1.2 Renewable bushings
Tools 1.3 Specification
What links here 1.4 Custom bushings
Related changes 2 Design
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Special pages 3.1 Bibliography
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Drill bushings can generally be classified as: press fit
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methods include by head type, by use, and by liner type
Printable version (or lack thereof).[2]

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Press-fit bushings [ edit ]
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Edit links Press fit are available in two types with liners or without
(wearing bushings). Liner bushings, sometimes called
master bushings, are permanently installed into the jig and
accept liners that can easily be replaced. Press-fit wearing
bushings are used in short run applications or in Types of drilling bushings: A.
applications where the tolerance on a hole location is so Headless wearing press-fit bushing B.
tight that it cannot facilitate the use of a liner bushing.[3] Head wearing press-fit bushing C.
Headless liner bushing with renewable
bushing D. Head liner bushing with
Renewable bushings [ edit ]
renewable bushing

Renewable
bushings are
installed in liner
bushings. This type
of bushing is used
in large production
Four features that can be
incorporated into small renewable runs where a
bushings for easy removal with a bushing will wear
screwdriver.
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 screwdriver. out over time or
when multiple
Four types of dogs. Key (A) shows
renewable bushings are used in one liner to provide how the end of the dog can be bent
various sized holes. There are two types of renewable down to wrap around the edge of the jig
bushings: fixed and slip.[3] plate; key (B) shows how a pin can be
used to keep the dog from rotating.
Fixed renewable bushings are used in applications where
the liner is meant to be used until it wears out. Slip
renewable bushings are designed to be interchangeable with a given sized liner so that two
different sized slip renewable bushings can be used in one liner bushing. This facilitates the ability
to do multiple machining operations that require different inner diameter (ID) bushings, such as
drilling and reaming. They usually have knurled heads so they can be easily removed.[3]

Renewable bushings must be secured in their liner

bushing, otherwise the tool can cause it to spin, which
rapidly wears out the liner, or chips can force the bushing
out of the liner. There are many different types of locking
systems for renewable bushings. One system is a dog,
which is a collar that is pressed over the head of the
bushing and has a long tail. The tail may be bent at the
end so it can lock around the edge of the jig plate or it may
be left straight if it can butt up against another object.
Another option to keep the renewable bushing from
rotating is to pin it, either by putting a pin in the renewable
bushing and a hole in the liner or vice versa. A more
complicated version uses a hole in the bushing collar and
a pin with a head; the head on the pin holds the edge of
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 Various methods to lock renewable the collar down, but for removal the bushing can be rotated
bushings so that the hole lines up with the pin.[5]

Specification [ edit ]

Customary bushings are specified using the following specification layout:[3]

ID-Type-OD-Length

Where the ID is specified as a decimal, drill letter size, drill number size, or fraction; the OD is an
integer that relates to a multiple of a 1⁄64th of an inch; the length is an integer that relates to a
multiple of a 1⁄16th of an inch. The lengths of press-fit bushings are standardized to typical jig plate
thicknesses: 5⁄16, 3⁄8, 1⁄2, 3⁄4, 1, 1 3⁄8, and 1 3⁄4 inch. The letter "U" is used after the OD number to
designate the that extra stock should be left on the OD for grinding to size. The type is a letter
referring to the following:[3]

S - Slip renewable
F - Fixed renewable
L - Headless liner
HL - Head liner
P - Headless press-fit
H - Head press-fit

The following two tables give the tolerances for the ID and OD.

ID tolerances[5]
Nominal ID [in] Maximum [in] Minimum [in]
0–0.25, including +0.0004 +0.0001
0.25–0.75, incl. +0.0005 +0.0001
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 0.75–1.5, incl. +0.0006 +0.0002
Greater than 1.5 +0.0007 +0.0003

OD grinding tolerances[5]
Nominal OD [in] Maximum [in] Minimum [in]
5⁄ –1⁄ +0.005 +0.010
32 4
5⁄ & 13⁄64 +0.010 +0.015
16

Greater than 1⁄2 +0.015 +0.020

Custom bushings [ edit ]

A common problem encountered is when two or more holes

are too close for independent standard bushings. In this
case one large renewable bushing can be made with two
(or more) holes in the proper location (the first example in
the image). Another possibility is to make a custom
bushing with an eccentric hole and then notches on the Three more common types of
custom drill bushings
outside of the head are used to locate the proper position
of the bushing for each location (the middle example in the
image). Another common need for a custom bushing is when the hole needed is perpendicular jig
plate; in this case a bracket bushing is used. It is a hardened piece of right angle steel that bolts to
the jig plate and is located with dowel pins.[6]

Design [ edit ]

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 In general, a drill bushing's length should be at least 2 times the nominal ID.[5]

References [ edit ]
1. ^ Colvin & Haas 1922, p. 44.
2. ^ a bc
Henriksen 1973, p. 154.
3. ^ a bc de f
Henriksen 1973, p. 155.
4. ^ http://catalog.asme.org/Codes/PrintBook/B94331_1998_Jig_Bushings.cfm
5. ^ a bc d
Henriksen 1973, p. 156.
6. ^ Colvin & Haas 1922, pp. 45, 47.

Bibliography [ edit ]

Colvin, Fred Herbert; Haas, Lucian Levant (1922), Jigs and fixtures (2nd ed.), McGraw-Hill,
p. 44.
Henriksen, Erik Karl (1973), Jig and fixture design manual , Industrial Press Inc., ISBN 978-0-
8311-1098-7.

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