Cutting Tools

Unattended Honing On A Vertical Chucker

An air-gage-monitored honing system added to an inverted vertical spindle chucking lathe allows unattended turning, boring and honing on one machine for greater process flexibility.

Tools For High-Production Milling

Saw Blades Feature Customized Tooth Design

System For Tangential, Radial And Circular Threading

Tool Presetting Ensures Tool Quality While Saving Time

The Edon, Ohio, plant of Metaldyne (Plymouth, Michigan) produces one of the most complex parts on an automobile: the steering knuckle. Irregularly shaped with a variety of surfaces and holes to mill, drill and bore, steering knuckles provide a machining challenge that usually requires some finesse to meet.

Tangential Milling Helps Foundry Speed Operations While Reducing Costs

There are always exceptions to those 'hard and fast' machining rules. A tripling of edge life and a 3-to-1 reduction in cutter count on a tough-cast steel milling job at Harrison Steel Castings Company (Attica, Indiana) proves this.

Inserts For Grooving, Turning And Profiling

Carbide Prices Bring Attention To Replaceable Tips

Small-diameter milling and drilling tools with replaceable tips not only save on carbide cost, but also save on tool management and inventory costs.

Access To Difficult-To-Reach Tapping Locations(2)

Chip-Splitting Carbide End Mills