Question of the Day

[Brother Glacius]

Anyone know if the material that a drill displaces has a specific term for it? I could not find one with mighty Google, but I didn't search too long. It just seems to me that someone would have coined a term for it.

[alindahl]

As an engineer with a fair amount of field experience, I've always heard it simply called "shavings", which I suppose is not super technically accurate, but it gets the job done.

[pretre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_cuttings

 

Also, spoil.

[PourSpelur]

My first job ever involved running aluminum blocks through a drill press. My foreman was an old man from Kentucky who I'm reasonably sure was carved out of wood. Seriously, he was probably sixty and ground my sixteen year old self info the ground. He never moved fast but the amount of work that he got done was staggering. Anyways, he told me to remove the "spool" because it was really sharp. About 15 years later I realized he was saying spoil but his drawl made it sound like spool.

[Guest]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_cuttings

That one is specific to boreholes, which refer to a specific type of ground based hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borehole

[WestRider]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarf

 

Also an abbreviated form of the name for Norse dark elves ;)

[InfestedKerrigan]

C'mon, people, it's a new day, that means new question!

 

 

Perhaps the thread should be renamed to "Ask a question, maybe someone will answer it."

[Duckman]

C'mon, people, it's a new day, that means new question!

 

 

Perhaps the thread should be renamed to "Ask a question, maybe someone will answer it."

 

You're just spoiled.

 

I think a new day means that this thread should be locked.  We've proven that you can still like it if you want to, so that should be fine...  

[Brother Glacius]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarf

 

Also an abbreviated form of the name for Norse dark elves ;)

I declare this the winner!