b'Whitney Toolexpensive machined component. The ability to deburr both sides of a hole (above) in a Worker health and safety are also a con- single operation is a huge timesaver.sideration. As machinists would attest, cuts, scrapes and repetitive stress injuries are common during manual deburring, neverside the machining center where consistency mind the potential inhalation of abrasive grit.is assured and theres no chance of missing Surely safer, more productive methods area hole. This is why its so important to con-available? vert manual deburring operations into au-tomated ones so that shops can more effi-Two for One ciently utilize their production floor staff.You dont want to pay CNC machinistsOne step in this conversion process is the to deburr holes, said Samuel Dean, direc- use of Burr-Zit and Handi-Burr deburring tor of sales and marketing at Whitney Toolsystems from Whitney Tool, he said. Often Co. Inc., Bedford, Indiana. You want to payreferred to as clothespin tools, Burr-Zit de-them to program and set up and maintainburrs the front and back of hole diameters machinery, which means that the deburringfrom 1.98 mm to 25.4 mm (0.078" to 1") in aor as much of it as possibleis done in- single in-and-out pass. The Handi-Burr line ctemag.com/cteguide.com31Deburring.indd 31 2/14/20 3:16 PM'