Tooling
Best Practices: Machining Difficult Materials
Cutting hardened steel, titanium and other difficult materials requires picking the right tools, eliminating spindle runout and relying on best practices to achieve tight part tolerances.
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Chipbreaker Improves PCD Productivity in Non-Ferrous Jobs
Tungaloy’s NS chipbreaker improves its PCD inserts’ chip management, reducing machine downtime and improving surface finish on non-ferrous materials.
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Putting Production on Repeat with Machine Tool Automation
Cobots and automation advances have spurred tooling and workholding innovations like Big Daishowa’s zero-point workholding system and EWA fine boring head.
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Indexable Milling Cutters for Semi-Finishing of 3D Surfaces
Tungaloy’s AddForceBarrel is said to provide greater engagement area between the cutting edge and workpiece compared to conventional ballnose end mills.
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Carbide Drill Designed to Deliver Coolant Closer to Cutting Edge
Walter’s DC 175 Supreme solid carbide drill is designed for increased performance in stainless steel and superalloy machining.
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Ceratizit Offers Inserts Optimized for Steel Turning
Three new, standard, coated-carbide, ISO-P steel inserts from Ceratizit are each optimized for specific production conditions.
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Mini Workpiece Positioning System Offers Fast, Flexible Setup
SMW Autoblok’s 40-mm Workpiece Positioning System (WPS) Mini is designed to reduce setup times and offer flexibility, especially for small workpieces that require quick part changeover.
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Workholding 101
No universal workholding solution exists, so machine shop employees should have a basic understanding of multiple ways they can secure workpieces.
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Mikron Adds Toric Version to Milling Cutter Family
Its CrazyMill Cool P&S milling cutter family expands to include Typ A and Typ C, which feature optimized geometry and integrated cooling channels.
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Multi-Directional Turning With New Turning Concept
Tungaloy’s AddMultiTurn provides the flexibility for outer diameter, face and profile turning operations in multi directions, which include high-feed back (pull) turning method, enabling toolpaths that turn in the opposite direction of conventional turning process at higher feeds.
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