Cutting Tools
How To Machine Aircraft Titanium: Getting The Metal Out
Part of a series of articles on machining pockets in titanium parts, this article describes various options for roughing the hard metal efficiently.
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How To Machine Aircraft Titanium: Plunge And Sweep For Finishing Corners
Part of a series of articles on more efficient machining of pockets in titanium parts, this article describes an effective approach to finishing internal corners.
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How To Machine Aircraft Titanium: Pricing The Process Instead Of The Tool
Part of a series of articles on more efficient machining of pockets in titanium parts, this article describes the importance of considering all of the costs that are affected by the choice of cutting tool.
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Finishing A Pocket Floor In Titanium
Machining animation from Boeing illustrates effective techniques for titanium workpieces. This simulation also shows finishing of the floor of the pocket.
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Finishing Walls In Titanium
Machining animation from Boeing illustrates effective techniques for titanium workpieces. This video shows material machined out of the corners prior to finishing.
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Plunge-And-Sweep For Finishing Corners
Machining animation from Boeing illustrates effective techniques for titanium workpieces.
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Insert Provides Long Life, Short Cycle Times
Novatek, a manufacturer of diamond products used in the oil and gas, mining, construction and other industries, needed to reduce both costs and production time on a job involving very large workpieces. The Tiger-Tec black and gold WPP10 insert from Walter USA, which features an aluminum oxide coating designed to prolong tool life at high surface footages, helped the company increase feeds and speeds and create smaller, more manageable chips.
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Tool Storage System Standardizes Setup
Faced with time-consuming setups and tool handling, hydraulic manifold manufacturer Apollo Machinery set out to develop its own compact tool storage and tracking system. In the process, the shop not only increased its own efficiency, but also developed a product that it says could set a standard for CNC machine setup.
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Laser Edge Preparation Improves Diamond Tool Performance
A cutting tool manufacturer uses seven-axis laser machining to create contoured, 3D chipbreaker geometries for its diamond-tipped inserts and tools.
Read MoreEnd Mills Feature Minimal Chatter
SGS Tool Company introduces a high-performance end mill that provides precision performance and high production rates with minimal chatter. The end mills feature variable pitch fluting geometry that provides improved chatter suppression, longer tool life, better surface finishes and high productivity rates, the company says. Manufactured with a rigid construction using certified premium micro-grain carbide, the end mills also deliver reduce harmonics and reduced radial side deflection allowing for improved side wall straightness.
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