Holemaking

Automation

Deep-Hole Drilling Automation Is More Than Part Load/Unload

Automation inside deep-hole drilling machines can be more valuable than part handling outside of them.

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Oil & Gas

Drilling and Chamfering Tool Solves Machine Shop's Vexing Problem

An oil & gas part with a lot of holes required that Utex use two different tools to ensure burr-free inner and outer diameters. With Heule’s Vex-S tool, the shop realized time savings per cycle of an entire minute by performing drilling and chamfering in a single step.

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Turning Tools

Horn's Supermini Gets an Insert Geometry for Drilling, Boring, Face Turning and Skimming

Designed for the Supermini tool system, Horn’s HP geometry is suitable for drilling, boring, face turning and skimming.

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Holemaking

How to Improve Peck Drilling Canned Cycles

Most CNCs don’t have a canned cycle for machining deep holes into malleable materials. Here’s what you do.

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Milling Tools

Sunnen's DirectDex Deep-Hole Drilling System for Heat-Resistant Superalloys

Sunnen Products Co.’s DirectDex series of drill heads, inserts and pads are said to be directly interchangeable with Sandvik deep-hole drilling tools.

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Turn/Mill

Multitasking Machining Center Cuts Process Steps as Well as Metal

Consistent queue delays between the lathe and the drilling machine led Koso KentIntrol to purchase a multitasking machine from Starrag that was capable of doing both. 

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Holemaking

Mapal's EasyAdjust System Simplifies External Reaming Setup

Mapal’s EasyAdjust (EA) tool system is designed for external reaming for machining of small outer diameters.

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Milling Tools

Sandvik Coromant's CoroBore 825 Uses Special Damper Technology

Sandvik Coromant’s updated CoroBore 825 fine boring tool applies the company’s Silent Tools technology, with dampers dimensioned specifically to suit every adapter size in the assortment.

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Holemaking

Emuge to Host Cutting Tech Expo in November

The event will offer tours of Emuge’s newly expanded facility, introductions to the company’s tapping and milling tool technology, as well as live machining demonstrations.

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Holemaking

Walter USA's DC160 X-treme Evo Advance Enables Precision Drilling

The DC160 X-treme Evo Advance solid carbide universal drill from Walter USA is designed for high positioning accuracy with a thinner web at the point and advanced positioning of the margins for hole guidance.

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IMCO
CERATIZIT OptiLine Solid Carbide End Mills
Ingersoll Cutting Tools
Sumitomo
T.J. Davies
Iscar
Kyocera MA90
Horn USA
Iscar