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Cutting Tools

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.

Zone: Cutting Tools

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Micro-size drills and end mills don’t have to be difficult to use.

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Winner By A Nose!

Wiper Technology to Turning Wiper technology is designed to improve surface finish in machining applications. It involves an insert with a flat. As the 'wiper' passes through the cut, it smoothes the surface.

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Cutters Compress To Effectively Machine Composites
10/28/2009 Modern Machine Shop: The combined up-cut and down-cut spiral flutes on these cutters compress layered composites to prevent delamination during machining.
Does Small-Hole Drilling Demand a Fast Spindle?
10/1/2009 Modern Machine Shop: A reader with a 10,000-rpm drill press can drill a 0.019-inch hole in stainless, as long as all the contributors to runout are controlled.
Triple Tap Life
9/30/2009 Modern Machine Shop: A maker of vehicle components finds that a treatment process for taps produces dramatically longer tool life.
Cutters Halve Cycle Time On Custom Racing Component
9/11/2009 Modern Machine Shop: Seeking to improve production time on custom-built connecting rods for racecar engines, this shop invested in a light-duty VMC with an eye toward implementing high speed machining. Retooling with cutters from Ingersoll helped make the most of this new capability.
The Ins and Outs of Inserts
8/20/2009 Production Machining: Understanding how inserts are made provides valuable insight into how their performance can be optimized.