Drill Sleeve and Arbour for Drill Chuck

A drill sleeve, also known as a reduction sleeve, is a tapered, hollow steel shaft that fits the tapered shank of a cutting tool to adapt it to a drill press spindle. Drill sleeves are used when the drill shank is smaller than the machine spindle hole. They can also be used to extend the length of the drill and change the taper of the connective arbors.Drill Sleeves: Drill sleeve. (engineering) A tapered, hollow steel shaft designed to fit the tapered shank of a cutting tool to adapt it to the drill press spindle. Drill Sleeves are used to adapt smaller mores taper shank tools to larger machine spindles.Drill sockets and drill sleeves are such adapters, used to add to or subtract from the Morse taper so that the drill bit fits into the chuck spindleMorse Taper Sleeves allow cutting tools with a Morse Taper Shank to be fitted to machine spindles which have a different Morse Taper to that of the tool. Manufactured from Carbon Steel. External and Internal Tapers are ground and oil toughened, manufactured to DIN 2185.