Cutting Tools

Holemaking

Retooling Saves Time And Space

Fermer Precision machines a variety of precision parts from aluminum, cast iron, powdered metal, carbon steel and low-carbon steel for automobiles, firearms, medical products and train brake systems. The company relies on a Mori Seiki SV-500 and two OKK KVC 600 vertical machining centers for drilling, reaming and chamfering operations.

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Grinding

Grinding Cell Yields Automatic Rewards

Sheffield, United Kingdom-based tool manufacturer Universal Drilling and Cutting Equipment (UDCE) manufactures a wide range of products for the engineering, fabrication and construction industries, including electro-magnetic drilling systems, broaching cutters, tungsten carbide cutters, industrial cutters and specialized engineering tools.

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Cutting Tools

Wringing Extra Life From Inserts

Throwing away worn carbide inserts? Then you may be interested in a service that not only resharpens those inserts for added use, but also guarantees that the reclaimed inserts will perform at least as well as brand new ones.

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Milling Tools

Bringing Cryogenics In From The Cold

There are numerous cases of significantly improved performance from steel and carbide cutting tools that have undergone cryogenic (deep freeze) treatment. But wide use of the process seems to suffer from a perceived lack of scientific underpinnings.

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Milling Tools

Tools For Milling In Z

The fastest way to mill away a lot of material may be to attack it head on with a move in the Z direction.

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When You Need Really Accurate Bores

When bore specifications move beyond the capability of more traditional cutting operations, shops look to honing as the next step in the finish and accuracy continuum. Here you'll find a process that, in some applications, produces better results than honing can.

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Turning Tools

Coating Improvements For Steel Turning

Relationships between coatings and substrate materials are keys to the performance of cemented carbide inserts.

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Reducing Cycle Time With Tool Selection/Management Program

Most products at BuTech are turned from Type 316 stainless steel bar stock with hardnesses of 28 to 32 HRC. The cold-worked stock provides a higher hardness than typical for this stainless steel type.

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Holemaking

Smart Boring Bar Auto-Comps

Because boring is a finishing or semi-finishing operation, there is generally little or no margin for dimensional or surface finish error. In production, dimensional accuracy of a precise bore can be negatively affected by tool wear over time.

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Small Milling Tool Accounts For Big Productivity Gain In Machining Forging Dies

Who would have ever thought that such a small mill could so consistently and so reliably finish machine that hardened die steel.

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