Tooling
Face Drivers, Live Centers Now Offered
LMC Workholding now offers face drivers and live centers from Tecnologie FRB, a company which designs and manufactures products incorporating advanced technology in turning, gear cutting and grinding.
Read MoreRoughing End Mill Enables High Feed Rates in Aluminum
Inovatools’ Primus HPC aluminum roughing end mill features a special entwined tooth system and optimized microgeometry.
Read MoreChamfering Tool Reduces Cutting Resistance, Burr Generation
Big Kaiser is introducing the R-Cutter CKB Type, a modular round chamfering tool.
Read MoreThread Mill Reduces Tool Pressure, Improving Tool Life
Allied Machine & Engineering has added the AccuThread T3 to its line of thread mills.
Read MoreCAM Strategy for Turning Method Provides Process Reliability
Vandurit has developed a RollFeed turning method that is complemented by a HyperMill CAM strategy from Open Mind.
Read MoreAutomated Boring Head Delivers Lights-Out Control of Fine Hole Making
An app to assist machinists in finish boring was the beginning. Now, servo control allows the app’s adjustments to be made automatically, allowing the process to run unattended.
Read MoreImported Tool Assemblies Save Time in CAM Programming
CNC Software Inc. has partnered with Kennametal to enable users to import tool assemblies from Novo to Mastercam 2018, saving them time when searching for tools and giving them the ability to build 3D tool assemblies that can be brought directly into the CAM program.
Read MoreSwiss Tool Systems Chooses Exclusive North American Distributor
JM Sales USA will now sell and service the Swiss company’s modular boring systems in North America.
Read MoreHigh-Adhesion Turning Grades Improve Peeling Resistance
Sumitomo Electric Carbide is releasing the AC4010K and AC4015K turning grades for cast iron designed to promote longer, stable tool life.
Read MoreFinishing Milling Cutter Handles Heat-Resistant Alloys
Mikron Tool has added the Ball Z4 finishing milling cutter with shank-integrated cooling to its CrazyMill Cool product line.
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