Tooling & Workholding

Cutting Tools

OVERVIEW: The broad category of “cutting tools” includes all of the consumable tooling involved in milling, drilling, turning and other lathe and machining center operations. Drills, end mills, taps, reamers and inserts are all included here. Consumable tooling used on certain other types of machine tools is included here as well. Also found here are toolholders and closely related accessories such as angle heads.

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September 2010

Video: Big Boring Operations on a Marine Prop Housing

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East Texas Machine Works focuses on large-scale work. Here’s a video showing impressive boring operations on a marine component....MORE

June 2010

Video: Modulation Assisted Machining

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This footage shows the effect of a techology that speeds and simplifies center drilling by oscillating the drill through many pecks per second....MORE

February 2012

Tools Can Drill, Thread, Chamfer All at Once

By: Modern Machine Shop
Carmex Precision Tools’ DMT line of thread milling tools enables customers to drill, thread and chamfer in a single operation. ...MORE

February 2012

Toolholders Improve Rigidity, Surface Finishes

By: Modern Machine Shop
Rego-Fix’s dual-contact Rego Plus toolholders are designed to improve TIR, tool rigidity, surface-finish quality and machine accuracies. ...MORE

February 2012

Triple Margin Drill Suited for Aluminum Application

By: Modern Machine Shop
Precision Cutting Tools’ AXC series drill features a triple-margin drill point for high penetration in aluminum applications. ...MORE

January 2012

Advancing Manufacturing, Tomorrow and Today

By: Peter Zelinski
A drilling solution improves the production of a component that is critical for correcting spinal disorders. Meanwhile, an apprenticeship program ensures that improvements like this one can continue into the future. ...MORE

December 2011

Broaching on CNC Machines

By: Edited by: Chris Felix
This summary of a technical presentation from the Technology Days event at Paul Horn Gmbh in Tübingen, Germany, discusses process analysis for broaching on CNC machines. ...MORE

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