Cutting Tools
End Mills Enable Hexalobular Shapes
Mitsubishi Materials’ VQ-XL Series three- and four-flute end mills enable the machining of precision hexalobular (T4, T6, T8, T15, T25 and T40) shapes common to bone screws in a two-step process: drill, then helical mill.
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Small Drill Designed for Stainless Steel Cutting
With bad thermal conductivity, high ductility and long chips, stainless steel cutting is a challenge even for machining specialists.
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Boring Bars Now Available with Coolant-Through Toolholders
Scientific Cutting Tools (SCT) has expanded its SCT Advantage small-diameter indexable boring bar program with coolant-through toolholders for maximum productivity.
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Chipbreaker for Small Tool Turning
Sumitomo Electric Carbide Inc. has expanded its tooling offering for precision machining applications.Â
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Support Blade-Style Tooling Cuts Internal Face Grooves
Thinbit has expanded its Deepgroove line of support blade-style tooling.
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Tools for Swiss-Type Machining Reduce Setup Time
Iscar offers its SwissCut Innoval product line, a generation of Swiss tools and inserts designed to enable greater accuracy and improved surface finish.
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End Mills Reduce Stress in Cutting High-Temperature Alloys
IMCO Carbide Tool’s Inconex M8 series end mills are designed for machining high-temperature alloys including Inconel, Hastalloy, Waspalloy and more.
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Micromachining Evolution
Challenge Machine continues to add high-speed equipment for the increasing amount of micromachining work it is performing. Here are some lessons it has learned along the way, using tools as small as 0.001 inch in diameter.
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Five-Axis Jig Boring and Milling Machine for Die-Mold
Available from Methods Machine Tools, the Yasda YBM Vi40 five-axis vertical jig boring and milling machine is intended for high-accuracy hard milling of complex dies, molds and components.
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Grooving and Turning Tool Features Side-Clamping Mechanism
Iscar’s GEHSR/L-SL tool family for Swiss-type and screw machines are an improved version of its current GEHSR/L screw-clamped tools.
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