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Cutting Tools
Latest Core Inserts Meet Near-Net-Shape Turning Needs
Cutting-tool makers now know more than ever about making general inserts for specific metalcutting applications. Here is some of what they've learned.
Read MoreInserts Improve Milling Of Tough Steel Castings For Missouri Manufacturer
When a Laurel, Missouri manufacturer of industrial equipment identified problems in their two machining operations on high alloy steel casting, they solved them with an insert and a cutter switch.
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Start With The Right Speeds And Feeds
Running rotary milling cutters at the proper speeds and feeds is critical to obtaining long tool life and superior results, and a good place to start is with the manufacturer's recommendations. These formulas and tips provide useful guidelines.
Read MoreShop Standardizes On Cutter For All Of Its Face Milling In Steel
This 20-year-old contract shop is focused on short-run machining of large structural cast iron and hotrolled steel components for special machine tools.
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Machining Success From Insert Failure
Indexable inserts do not last forever, but some fail prematurely. By selecting the right insert, shops can extend tool life.
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The "All Round" Milling Insert
Carbide milling inserts today are available in a staggering number of geometric shapes. No longer are the choices for the end user as simple as square, diamond or triangle. Now, insert manufacturers are using such terms as elliptical, frustum and helical to describe their various insert shapes.
Read MoreTune Chatter Out Of Tools
A basic tenet of metalcutting is shorter tools are more rigid than longer tools and generally deliver better cutting results. Closer proximity of a cutting edge to a machining center spindle or turning center turret translates into higher feeds and speeds with better surface finish and less chatter.
Read MoreSoft Turning Is Key To Hard Turning
For this contract shop, it's what happens before heat treat that ensures hard turning process success. They've learned getting it right early eliminates problems later.
Read MoreIndexable Cutters Prove Versatile Choice For Contoured Surfaces
Robert Pinto had always cut that external radius with a form tool. It seemed the most efficient way.
Read MoreSpecial Cutting Tools, Special Cars
Ford's new "world cars"--the Ford Contour, Mercury Mystique and Ford Mondeo (available in Europe)--can be equipped with a 2.5 liter, 60-degree, all aluminum V-6 Duratec engine designed to go 100,000 miles between tune-ups.
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