Holemaking
Drill Helps Shop Balance Cycle Time, Part Quality
At Mill Equip Products, getting components out the door quickly is extremely important. A difficult drilling operation had the shop considering a $5,000 option for its milling machine to reduce cycle time until it found a simpler, less costly solution—the R458 MP-X drill from Dormer Precision. The drill’s geometry and long tool life enabled the shop to reduce production time on the job by more than two weeks.
Read MoreDrill Point Grinders
Cuttermasters’ GSC drill point grinders are designed to regrind drills with diameters ranging from 0. 098 to 1. 032".
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Adjustable Drill Drives Inventory Cost Savings
During a difficult application, the inserts on this shop’s standard IC drill would sporadically fail, causing the entire tool to break down. This required the shop to stock a large inventory of costly replacements in various sizes to fit different-sized holes. Allied Machine and Engineering’s Revolution drill allows the shop to adjust tool diameter and cut holes of different sizes with a single tool, while replaceable insert cartridges on the front end keep insert failure from wrecking the tool itself.
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Video: Helical Interpolation Vs. Drilling
A machining center able to maintain precise control at high feed rates makes it practical to machine holes through helical milling as an alternative to drilling.
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Hole Making: Combination Tools
This video demonstrates hole making. Hole making often involves sequential operations such as drill-then-tap. Combination tools that perform these operations simultaneously can eliminate tool changes, saving cycle time. Many combination tools call for helical interpolation. The video shows the same series of hole
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How To Machine Composites, Part 4 -- Drilling Composites
Achieving acceptable tool life and hole quality in a material such as CFRP demands a drill designed with composites in mind.
Read MoreHigh Pressure Coolant Reduces Friction
High Pressure Coolant from CoolJet Systems increases throughput, reduces process cycle times, improves surface finishes, improves chip control, reduces the number of processes and increases tool life. Suited for applications such as drilling, grooving and boring, the cutting fluid can also be used for cutting exoti
Read MoreTool Blanks In Carbide, PCD, PCBN(2)
Iljin Diamond’s Epsilon Tungsten Carbide rods and blanks are used to produce end mills, drills and reamers as well as micro drill and router bits. Available sizes range from 1.2 to 32 mm in diameter with 320-mm standard, unground length. Options include straight or helical coolant holes and pre-forming. Manufacture
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Exit-Side Drill Penetration Without Delamination
Slow-motion video shows the effect of a micograin tool coating in drilling CFRP.
WatchDrill And Chamfer In A Single Operation
The Vex-S drilling and chamfering tool combines the company’s Snap chamfering system with the Vex twist drill in order to drill and front/back chamfer a through-hole in a single operation. The combination tool offers a solid carbide, replaceable twist drill tip with the company’s Vex cutting geometry, which is desi
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