What Different Sounds Tell You About Deep Hole Drilling
Why Sound Matters Sound is the earliest indicator of a problem in deep hole drilling. The gauges show what happened. The sound tells you what is happening right now. I learned this from an operator who had been running gun drills for 30 years. He taught me to listen to the machine before looking at the control panel. The sound changes before the numbers do. A drill that is about to break sounds different 10 seconds before it breaks. The indicators on the screen still look normal. ...