Cutting Tools

Best Practices: Machining Difficult Materials

Cutting hardened steel, titanium and other difficult materials requires picking the right tools, eliminating spindle runout and relying on best practices to achieve tight part tolerances.

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Putting Production on Repeat with Machine Tool Automation

Cobots and automation advances have spurred tooling and workholding innovations like Big Daishowa’s zero-point workholding system and EWA fine boring head.

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Indexable Milling Cutters for Semi-Finishing of 3D Surfaces

Tungaloy’s AddForceBarrel is said to provide greater engagement area between the cutting edge and workpiece compared to conventional ballnose end mills.

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Carbide Drill Designed to Deliver Coolant Closer to Cutting Edge

Walter’s DC 175 Supreme solid carbide drill is designed for increased performance in stainless steel and superalloy machining.

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Ceratizit Offers Inserts Optimized for Steel Turning

Three new, standard, coated-carbide, ISO-P steel inserts from Ceratizit are each optimized for specific production conditions.

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Mikron Adds Toric Version to Milling Cutter Family

Its CrazyMill Cool P&S milling cutter family expands to include Typ A and Typ C, which feature optimized geometry and integrated cooling channels. 

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Multi-Directional Turning With New Turning Concept

Tungaloy’s AddMultiTurn provides the flexibility for outer diameter, face and profile turning operations in multi directions, which include high-feed back (pull) turning method, enabling toolpaths that turn in the opposite direction of conventional turning process at higher feeds.

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Emuge-Franken USA Launches New Line of Thread Mills

MultiThread thread mills are said to be ideal for job shop manufacturing where part applications and materials frequently change, and they are designed to provide a versatile solution for many threadmaking requirements.

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Tungaloy Launches Small Diameter Indexable Shoulder Milling Cutter

The new size-04 inserts for the TungForce-Rec series enable the cutter body to have a large core diameter and ample insert support, providing high tool rigidity and stability contrary to the small diameter.

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Improved Chip Removal With Boring Bar Line, Offset Adapter

Together with A2201's larger offset dimensions, the internal coolant delivery of the A3001 boring bar optimizes chip removal, adding to its superior surface finishes. Walter says it provides fast and productive counterboring and internal profiling of parts.

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