Does anyone have know of a machine that would be capable of drilling and tapping in the horizontal position? What we are trying to accomplish is to have a unit that would be capable of drilling and tapping two set screw holes in the hubs of roller chain sprockets without the use of drill presses or taking over one of our machining centers. I'm thinking a horizontal turret with driven tooling and a vertical arbor with bushings to accomodate different size bores. Essentially a VTL with the tooling approaching from the side rather than above and the tooling being powered. Hoping not to have to build it.
We do have a lathe with live tools and C-axis that we can use, but don't want to tie up that machine for this task.