Milling Tools
How AM Is Advancing into Cutting Tools: Photos from EMO
The design freedom of additive manufacturing delivers increased performance to cutting tools. At the world’s leading exposition for machine tools, I saw various examples of this.
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Dormer Pramet's SNGX11 Insert Enables High-Feed Milling in Steel
The double-sided SNGX11 insert from Dormer Pramet is capable of high-feed milling with a depth of cut ranging to 0.07".
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Tool Setting Fixture Boosts Process Security for High-Volume Shop
Along with switching to a different milling tool to improve surface finishes on aluminum parts, Alupress also employed Mapal's Uniset-P setting fixture to make the process reliable and efficient.
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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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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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Sandvik Coromant Introduces New Insert Geometries for Grooving
Sandvik Coromant has added the -M30 and -L50 insert geometry options for its CoroMill 331 milling cutter.
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Tungaloy Expands DoTwistBall Series with New Shell Mill Diameters
DoTwistBall is designed to provide reliability during complex 3D milling processes.
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Niagara Cutter ST540 from Seco Extends End Mill's Versatility
Seco Tools has expanded Niagara Cutter’s Stabilizer product line with the five-flute ST540 end mill designed to increase performance and versatility.
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A New Spin on CNC Machining Face Grooves
Here is an alternative to standard end milling — an operation performed on a CNC milling machine to produce circular grooves in the part face. This new single-point trepanning tooling strategy can produce both symmetrical and asymmetrical face grooves, too, and perform fly cutting.
Read MoreBig Kaiser Offers Insert Grades for Cutting Stainless Steel, Aluminum
Big Kaiser’s has released a new set of insert grades for its C-Cutter Mini, C-Centering Cutter and Fullcut Mill tool products.
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