Milling Tools
Mills for Higher Removal Rates at Moderate Feeds
Iscar says its new milling cutters increase productivity in heavy roughing applications on limited-feed machines.
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Indexable Mills Speed Cavity Cutting
Ballnose mills are a common choice for hogging out cavities on molds and form dies. However, these three shops have realized significantly faster cavity milling by switching to Ingersoll’s Chip Surfer modular tooling system, which features a cylindrical shape that keeps more of the tool engaged in the cut.
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Software/Tooling Partnership Promises Easier HSM
High-efficiency parameters are calculated automatically—partly using a slider that lets the programmer set the level of aggressiveness.
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Supermill Full Line Catalog
Primary Cutter’s Supermill catalog features high-performance carbide end mills with an extensive offering of radius sizes and diameters.
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Solid Carbide Thread Mills
An expanded line of solid carbide thread mills has been added to the company’s Threads-All program.
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Carbide End Mills Feature Four-Flute Design
Superior Tool Service offers a four-flute rougher/finisher carbide end mill for cutting hard steel.
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Composites Machining for the F-35
Lockheed Martin’s precision machining of composite skin sections for the F-35 provides part of the reason why this plane saves money for U.S. taxpayers. That machining makes the plane compelling in ways that have led other countries to take up some of the cost. Here is a look at a high-value, highly engineered machining process for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
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Insert Coating Makes the Grade in Progress Initiative
Exchanging turning inserts for Seco’s Duratomic-coated grade TP2500 helped this manufacturer reduce per-part and perishable tooling costs by 20 and 70 percent, respectively.
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Expanded Modular Tooling System
BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has expanded the Kaiser KAB modular tooling system capabilities to include the rigid, high-feed C-Cutter Mini chamfer mill line from BIG Daishowa Seiki.
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VIDEO: Pocketing Steel - 0.030” DOC
(Sponsored Content) This video demonstrates Dapra's 1" Toroid End Mill executing a pocketing routine in steel. The material is 4140PH (30 Rc), and the machine tool used is a Fadal 4020 with a 40-taper spindle with .030" DOC.
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