Cutting Tools

Cutting Tools

Milling Grade for Stainless Steels

Sandvik Coromant says its GC1040 milling grade features consistently sharp cutting edges, low forces and slow wear, even during tough machining of austenitic stainless and duplex materials.   The grade is recommended for shoulder milling small diameters in fine to medium roughing applications.

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Cutting Tools

Steel Turning Grade

Tungaloy America’s T9100 steel turning series features CVD and PremiumTec coating for a highly polished cutting surface.

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Oil & Gas

Drill Features Large, Deep Hole Capability

Seco Tools’ Perfomax indexable insert drill family includes the SD600 modular drill system, which is designed for large and deep hole drilling applications, such as those found in the oil and gas and power generation sectors.

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Cutting Tools

Arbor System for Low-Clearance Work Areas

Spirit Tool says its Arbor System enables rigid, low-profile mounting of side milling cutters or slitter saws.

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Cutting Tools

CNC-Pressed, High-Feed Inserts for Toroid Cutters

Dapra’s HFDEH high-feed inserts are designed to fit toroid cutter bodies.

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Milling Tools

High-Feed Cutters for Difficult Materials

The 7792VXE16 high-feed shell mill cutter from ATI Stellram is designed to increase material removal rates in titanium and other difficult-to-machine materials, including nickel-, cobalt- and titanium-based alloys.

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The Online Optimizer

Coming soon: The Machine Tool Genome Project promises to let almost any machine shop use its machining centers more productively. Shops will benefit from tap-test findings without personally tapping any of their own machines or tools.

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Turning Tools

Let the Tool Path Help the Tool

A cutting tool supplier works in CAM software to create processes that extend tool life and improve performance.

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Workholding

Manual Horizontal Index Table

Distributed by CNC Indexing & Feeding Technologies, Ganro Industrial Corporation’s GCT series manual horizontal index table adds indexing capability to a horizontal boring mill.

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Holemaking

CBN-PCD Diamond-Tipped Boring Bars

Scientific Cutting Tools offers a complete line of PCD-tipped boring bars for abrasive nonferrous materials and CBN-tipped bars for ferrous metal measuring 45 HRc or harder.   PCD-tipped boring bars last longer for abrasive, nonferrous metals such as silicon aluminum, ceramics and composites.

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