Cutting Tools

Milling Tools

Tooling Partnerships Key To Rapid Growth

It is through partnerships with tooling vendors that this growing shop feels it can best position itself to provide the kind of service its customers require.

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Aerospace

Aerospace Manufacturer Produces 'Perfect' Pins To Secure Arrays

Imagine the space shuttle delivering a space station payload into orbit when suddenly, the locking mechanism holding the 100-foot-long array of solar panels fails, and out pops the entire solar panel array.

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Milling Tools

Tool And Die Shop Doubles Throughput On Steel Tubing Grooving

With their conventional high-speed steel milling cutters, this shop experienced a series of problems producing critical axial grooves in steel tubings.

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Milling Tools

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes

New Cutter Gives Better Mold And Die Finishes.

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Holemaking

Making Automated Drilling Affordable

When this New Jersey shop started to machine large quantities of its casting, the choices of drilling and tapping spindles were numerous. They finally based their selection on service and technical support.

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Cutting Tools

Multi-Directional Turning System Quadruples Output Rate

Here's a look at a production machining contractor utilizing state-of-the-art CNC machine tools to produce components for suppliers and OEMs in the automotive, transportation equipment, and machine tool industries.

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Milling Tools

Should You Balance Your Tools?

Should you balance your tools? The answer varies from process to process. Experience is the best guide.

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Milling Tools

Improving Milling Throughput By 50 Percent With 'Wrong' Insert

This company will save at least $87,500 per year by changing over to positive rake cutter and inserts for milling a family of ductile iron couplings. Cycle time per part has dropped one third, elevating production from four to six parts per hour.

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Holemaking

Don't Overlook EDM Tapping

In many difficult hole making applications, the best way (and often the only way) to form internal threads is with electrical discharge machining.

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Milling Tools

Drill And Bore With A Face Mill

Cutting holes by interpolating a face milling cutter may be a better process choice for many rough and even finish boring operations. Software improvements and better cutter designs allow expanding use of the versatile face mill for hole making.

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