Tooling

Workholding

Workholding System Is Easy to Mount

Designed to quicken and ease precision machining, the T-Slot Block workholding system from Tau Ceti features T-slots and threaded holes that enable users to employ existing in-house tooling, such as T-nuts, studs, clamps and straps.

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Workholding

“Lean” CMM Workholding Features Quick Part Change

Designed to compliment intelligent CMMs, Mitee-Bite’s “lean” line of workholding products are designed to increase productivity by enabling one-handed part swaps.

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Cutting Tools

Cutters, Inserts Increase Feed Rates

Dapra’s Rhino-Feed line of heavy-feed cutters and inserts are designed to enable faster feed rates in moderate- to heavy-DOC and -FPT applications.

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Holemaking

Micro Collets Increase Spindle Accuracy

Ibag North America’s micro collet system is designed to improve accuracies for precision milling and ultra-small drilling applications, such as in medical and other micro-manufacturing industries.

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Holemaking

Carbide Micro Drill Offers Flexibility

CrazyDrill Flex from Mikron Tool combines the flexibility of an HSS drill with the increased tool life and precision of a solid carbide drill.

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Cutting Tools

Insert Grade Coating Improves Tool Life

Sumitomo Electric Carbide’s AC420K insert is a CVD-coated carbide grade that features layers of TiCN and Al2O3 for wear, chipping and heat resistance.

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Toolholders

Toolholder Secures Cutting Tools

Haimer’s Safe-Lock tool clamping system combines positive form fit with accurate torque press fit locking to prevent round, shanked cutting tools from pulling out of the holder.

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Toolholders

Live Lathe Tools Eliminate Secondary Operations

Designed to fit lathe models with live tooling capability, Eltool’s Titespot live tool modules for ID machining combine with the company’s compact right-angle heads to machine bores as small as 1" in diameter.

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Basics

Why the Y?

See how Y-axis toolholders enable Swiss-type lathes to realize better chip control.

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CAD/CAM

Coming Soon: Universal, CAM-Independent Cutting Tool Library

Software relying on the ISO standards for cutting tools aims to dramatically simplify tool selection.

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