Cutting Tools

Carbide-Inserted Spot Drill Combination

Boring Kit Comes Ready-To-Use

New Coating Designed To Ramp Up Drilling Performance

Balance Toolholders With Ease

Precise, Non-Contact Inspection Of Complex Parts

The TesaVisio 300 Direct Computer Control (DCC), a non-contact video measuring system from Brown & Sharpe, combines a high-definition CCD camera with PC-DMIS Vision software to measure complex parts. The system provides an 11.

Slotting Cutters With Tangentially-Clamped Inserts

Marine Supplier Meets Tricky Tolerances With Presetter And Measuring Machine

For its supercharged six-cylinder Verado outboard motor range, Mercury Marine (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) set and met multiple new tolerances. One of the trickier tooling tolerances had to do with the valve seat boring tools. The company's Mazak machining centers incorporate 15 of these long, narrow, multi-insert tools to finish machine the 24-valve seats, intake and exhaust in the one-piece aluminum cylinder head. Because valve clearances are factory-adjusted and are designed to remain within tolerance for several thousand hours, close machining tolerances are essential.

Holders Offer Adjustable Chamfering Angle

Machining’s Role In Making Cancer "History"

A machine shop in a new cancer treatment center produces components to precisely guide proton radiation to eliminate its target—cancerous tumors.

A Two-Speed Approach To Plunge Roughing

In plunge roughing, the strategy is in the stepover.  Here is a plunge roughing strategy that has worked well for Boeing researchers.