Burnishing Face Mill Eliminates Manual Lapping, Polishing
Why task employees to polish large, flat metal surfaces? Try a machine tool with a diamond burnishing face mill instead.
Hoffman's Garant Power Q Double Uses Three-Part Cutting Edge Guide
IMTS Spark: Hoffman Group’s Garant Power Q Double all-rounder is part of a series of tools designed for high-feed-rate milling.
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Big Kaiser's EWA68 Boring Head System Compensates for Tool Wear
IMTS Spark: Big Kaiser Precision Tooling’s EWA68 closed-loop boring system features an intelligent, fully automatic fine boring head.
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Emuge's Circle Segment End Mills Shorten Five-Axis Cycle Times
IMTS Spark: Emuge’s circle segment cutters are designed to remove more material in fewer passes during five-axis machining
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When a Swiss-Type Is a Lathe and a Five-Axis Mill
Swiss-type lathes with a swiveling B axis enable this shop to machine parts complete and unattended that it otherwise couldn’t using its five-axis machining centers. Here is some of what it learned adopting this new technology.
YG-1's ENMX High-Feed Milling Tools Provide Insert Clamping Security
IMTS Spark: YG-1’s ENMX High-Feed Mill 4 is a series of small-diameter cutting tools developed to meet stringent demands of versatility, productivity and process stability.
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Star SU's Single-Flute Gundrills Suitable for Medical Device Machining
Star SU’s solid carbide gundrills are designed for work in medical-grade materials such as titanium and stainless steel.
Emuge-Franken Celebrates 100th Anniversary
The company was begun by Richard Glimpel in 1920, who invented a spiral-pointed tap that could do with one tool what it normally took three to accomplish.
Dormer Pramet Offers Cutting Tools for Maintenance, Repair Applications
Dormer Pramet offers a range of cutting tools and accessories aimed at maintenance and repair (MRO), including drills, taps, dies, reamers, end mills and rotary burrs.
Guided TA Tool Overcomes Cross-Hole Drilling Hurdles in Moldmaking
Allied Machine & Engineering’s Guided TA drill for moldmaking applications is used for producing water lines.
Suhner's PolyDrill Multi-Spindle Drilling Heads Available in Various Configurations
The PolyDrill series of multi-spindle heads, available from Suhner, includes fixed and adjustable hole pitches and compact models.
A New Spin on CNC Machining Face Grooves
Here is an alternative to standard end milling — an operation performed on a CNC milling machine to produce circular grooves in the part face. This new single-point trepanning tooling strategy can produce both symmetrical and asymmetrical face grooves, too, and perform fly cutting.
Seco's 335.18, 335.19 Cutters Perform Disc Milling in Stainless, Titanium, Superalloys
The 335.18 and 335.19 cutter bodies from Seco are designed to address the difficulties of disc milling in hard-to-machine materials.
Mapal's FaceMill-Diamond PCD Milling Cutter Improves Chip Removal
Mapal’s FaceMill-Diamond polycrystalline diamond (PCD) milling cutter is designed for high-volume face milling on unstable parts.
Tungaloy Adds Changeable-Head Tool to Drilling Grade Series
Tungaloy is expanding its AH9130 drill head grade series to include the DMP drill head line from the DrillMeister changeable-head drill series.
Emuge's A-H HSS Taps Designed for Hardened Steel and Cast Iron
Emuge’s A-H family of HSS-E and HSSE-PM taps was designed to provide more standard product solutions for threading hardened steel and cast iron.
Inovatools' Curvemax Curve-Segment Mill Improves Finishing of Medical Implants
The Curvemax curve-segment mill from Inovatools features geometries that permit larger path distances and line jumps during pre-finishing and finishing.
Emuge's Innoform-Steel-M Taps Form Threads in Medium-Strength Steels
Emuge’s Innoform-Steel-M line of HSSE-PM taps are designed to form threads with improved surface quality while increasing static and dynamic thread strength.
Understanding Circle-Segment Milling Tools
The circle-segment cutter represents a class of milling tool in which the CAM software is key for using the tool effectively. Cutting profiles presented at the proper angles realize cycle-time reductions in contoured workpieces such as molds. A CAM company engineer discusses the role of this tooling.
Suhner's EconoMaster Drilling Units Cut Various Light Materials
Suhner’s EconoMaster line of drilling units is designed for multiple materials such as light metal, wood, composite, plastic and foam.
Tungaloy Adds Fracture-Resistant Guide Pads to DeepTri-Drill Line
Tungaloy’s DeepTri-Drill line of indexable deep hole drills now includes FH3135 grade guide pads.
Monaghan Tooling's Top Speed Ring Reamer Enables Higher Feed Rates
Monaghan Tooling Group’s Top Speed Ring is a reamer designed to provide higher feed rates over traditional cutting rings.
YG-1's Fiberglass Routers Designed for Manual, CNC Cutting
YG-1 offers a series of four solid carbide fiberglass routers designed to handle machining of fiberglass and other high-performance fibers.
Walter USA's MC232 Perform Milling Cutter Increases Edge Stability
Walter USA’s MC232 Perform series of solid carbide milling cutters feature a corner radius and reduced neck.
Kennametal's KOR 5 End Mill Enables Higher Feed Rates Roughing Aluminum
Kennametal’s KOR 5 solid carbide end mill is designed for high-speed aluminum roughing in aerospace applications.
