Milling Tools
New Treatment Extends Tool Life
Heat is the major enemy of the cutting tool. Tool life is a measure of how long an individual edge can effectively hold up to the temperatures and pressures that are generated in the cutting zone.
Read MoreOne Insert For More Operations
Conventional wisdom about standard milling operations has always been that compared to square shoulder cutters, lead angle cutters are easier on the spindle, can be run at higher table feed rates, and cut freer. Finishes are typically better and, with the addition of a wiper flat insert, finishes could be further improved. Due to the chip thinning attributes of this type of cutter, actual table feeds can be more rapid, albeit at the sacrifice of some depth of cut compared to a zero lead cutter.
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Extending The Range Of PCBN
Thicker inserts and a wider variety of styles are allowing PCBN to be applied to a growing range of hard, ferrous applications.
Read MoreOhio Manufacturer Cuts Milling Time By 75 Percent
Oren Elliott Products, Inc. is located in Edgerton, Ohio near the Indiana border. It is a large North American supplier of air-dielectric variable capacitors, which are used in such diverse applications as magnetic resonance imagery equipment, mass spectroscopy equipment, silicon chip plasma etching and deposition devices, plus surface-to-air missile guidance systems.
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The Case For Optimized Inserts
A carbide insert is an engineered system consisting of substrate, coating, geometry and other components designed to work together. Insert manufacturers are getting very adept at optimizing this system and matching it to a given application.
Read MoreFine Pitch Cutter Increases Milling Productivity
This 120 year-old manufacturer to update its manufacturing processes and expand its product offering so it could become a sole-source supplier for its customers in the steam industry.
Read MoreTooling Partnerships Key To Rapid Growth
It is through partnerships with tooling vendors that this growing shop feels it can best position itself to provide the kind of service its customers require.
Read MoreTool And Die Shop Doubles Throughput On Steel Tubing Grooving
With their conventional high-speed steel milling cutters, this shop experienced a series of problems producing critical axial grooves in steel tubings.
Read MoreNew Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes
New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes.
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Should You Balance Your Tools?
Should you balance your tools? The answer varies from process to process. Experience is the best guide.
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