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Dielectric Oil Dramatically Reduces EDM Maintenance
Oil & Gas

Dielectric Oil Dramatically Reduces EDM Maintenance

Plagued by repeated small fires that interrupted its wire EDM throughput, this cutting tool manufacturer changed its dielectric oil and both eliminated fires and reduced its oil consumption.

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Oelheld Metalworking Fluid Boosts Grinding Performance

IMTS 2026: Oelheld U.S. Inc. introduces the SintoGrind ETG series, an ester-based grinding oil engineered for precision grinding of carbide, HSS, CBN, PCD, cermet and ceramic tool materials.

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Sandvik Coromant Solid End Mill Enhances Profiling Efficiency

Sandvik Coromant’s Coromill Plura Barrel end mill is designed for high process security and significant cycle time reductions in aerospace and other high-demand sectors.

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Aerospace

Kennametal Tooling System Provides Effective Machining at High Speeds

BTKV30 is a tooling system designed specifically for small-parts machining in industries such as aerospace, medical, oil and gas, transportation and general engineering.

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Aerospace

Greenleaf End Mills Optimize Machining Stability

Capstone-360 end mills are well suited for machining HRSAs, cast iron and hardened steel materials for the aerospace, oil and gas, power generation and medical industries.

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Aerospace

Sandvik Coromant Turning Adapters Enhance Vibration Control

Sandvik Coromant’s Silent Tools turning adapters provide improved internal turning at long overhangs.

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4-way Bed Precision Lathe Features Automated Cycles

Long and thin workpieces can be machined without reclamping on this new machine from Weiler, according to the company.

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Oil & Gas

3+3 Air Chuck Features Extended Stroke and Self-Centering

To keep up with the demands of the oil and gas industry, SMW Autoblok introduces BBFZA2G Air Chuck, featuring an extended stroke clamping range and three self-centering jaws.

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Milling Tools

Five-Axis Changes Weldments Into Monolithic One-Piece Parts

Moving from welding to five-axis machining enabled Barbco to redesign its weldments as monolithic one-piece parts with improved strength and repeatability.

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Aerospace

Starrag Adds Machining Center to Kentucky Lab

The new turbine blade machining center is designed to support aerospace and energy customers. It incorporates solutions from Blum-Novotest, Haimer.

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EDM

Robot Frees EDM Drill From Machine Enclosure

CNC integration with a six-axis arm provides precise enough positioning to shape air- and gas-flow holes in aerospace and power generation parts.

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Four-Flute Carbide Drill Increases OWSI's Feedrate Fourfold

Ceratizit’s line of WTX-HFDS drills saved OWSI 3.5 minutes per part on a difficult job and completely eliminated a secondary operation, increasing profitability.

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Oil & Gas

Continuous Improvement Requires Continuous Effort

So-called “busywork” hones natural instincts for reform as a specialist CNC machine shop adapts a more formalized methodology.

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Turn/Mill

Manufacturing Association Aids Shop’s Pivot to Ventilator Parts

After reaching out to the Austin Regional Manufacturers Association, a shop that typically serves oil and gas and heavy industry was able to quickly fill an order for ventilator parts.

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Milling Tools

Drilling and Chamfering Tool Solves Machine Shop's Vexing Problem

An oil & gas part with a lot of holes required that Utex use two different tools to ensure burr-free inner and outer diameters. With Heule’s Vex-S tool, the shop realized time savings per cycle of an entire minute by performing drilling and chamfering in a single step.

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Oil & Gas

Interrupted Turning Operation Cuts Cost With 10-Sided Insert

Using a robust 10-sided insert from Tungaloy, this oil-industry remanufacturer was able to reduce the number of inserts used in interrupted turning operations.

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Machined Parts Supplier Musts and Plusses

A retired vice president of manufacturing for an oil and gas drilling equipment OEM describes the traits he looked for in potential new machining vendors as he worked to bolster the company’s supply chain.

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3 Types of Insights from Used Oil Analysis (UOA)

Monitoring the condition of lubricants through UOA helps machine shops glean critical insights that can limit downtime and keep equipment running.

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