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Inside The Mind Of The Drill Designer

Designing hole-making tools is a game of compromises, says Goran Melin, drilling product manager at Seco Carboloy. 'Where you gain in one area, you must pay somewhere else,' he says. The trade-offs usually include tool life, accuracy and stability. Tool designers are constantly juggling these variables to find the best solution.

Hard Turning Might Not Be As Hard As You Think

Turning hardened materials to grinding-like accuracies takes the right combination of part, machine and process parameters.

Lathe Helps Company With Complete Hydraulic Piston Production

By employing a lathe with deep-hole drilling capability, the company's hydraulic pistons are now produced completely in one operation.

Auto Shrink Presetters

Digital Boring Heads

Milling Cutter High Feed Rates

Facing And Center Drilling Machine

Leveraging Little Holes To Lure Additional Work

Not many contract shops can drill a 0.001-inch hole. This one can, and it uses its micro-hole-making capabilities to attract more 'traditional' machining work from its customers.

Making It In Medical Machining

Examining this shop's healthy medical machining business shows that both medical components and medical customers require special care.

An Indexable Insert

The solid end mill is a machine shop staple. Its positive cutting edge removes metal by slicing through the material, rather than by scraping.