Tooling

Oil & Gas 3 Jan 2017

Hollow Workpiece? Try Hollow Barstock

A video from Sandvik Materials Technology demonstrates the benefits of turning oilfield parts out of near-net-shape rather than solid barstock.

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Turning Tools 2 Jan 2017

Grooving Tool Stably Performs Radial, Axial Grooving Operations

Walter USA’s Walter Cut G1511-P grooving tool with precision coolant supply is available in 1.0" shank sizes and is designed to provide increased tool life and productivity.

Milling Tools 1 Jan 2017

Toolholding for Heavy-Duty Machining

Heller Machine Tools needed to improve metal removal rates during roughing and heavy-duty machining. Haimer's Safe-Lock system enabled high-feed slotting of up to 2 times diameter in difficult materials.

Workholding 29 Dec 2016

One-Hand Quick-Change Vise Maximizes Freedom for Soft Jaws

A “four-leaf clover” device enables machining of deep profiles into four different directions of the jaw. Developed in a Pennsylvania job shop, the vise system is now marketed to other shops.

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Holemaking 27 Dec 2016

Video: Thread Mill Without a Pilot Hole

This tool can drill a hole and mill threads simultaneously.

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Holemaking 23 Dec 2016

Drilling Machine Handles Large Workpieces as Long as 65 Feet

Unisig’s B850 drilling machine, part of the company’s B-series line designed for on-center drilling of round workpieces, features technologies designed to improve performance while reducing cost.

Toolholders 22 Dec 2016

Improving Tool Life by Turning off Coolant

In this case study, learn how retooling with the Di-Pos Hexa high-performance face mill from Ingersoll Cutting Tools and turning off the coolant helped McGill Machine Works achieve eight times the tool life of its previous inserts plus an 80 percent boost in throughput.

Cutting Tools 21 Dec 2016

Okuma Hosts 400 at Annual Technology Showcase

The event’s theme focused on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Cutting Tools 16 Dec 2016

Ceramic Insert Grade Has Broad Range of Applications

When Greenleaf’s staff of researchers started exploring what they could do with a new manufacturing method to induce internal crystal growth within a silicon-nitride-based ceramic for forming ceramic composite cutting tool inserts, they "got pretty excited," as the story goes. They even named the new grade Xsytin—as in “excitin’.”