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New Tap Features Innovative Emuge Chip-Breaking Technology

(sponsored content) Emuge offers a tap with superb chip-breaking capabilities that is ideally designed for machining applications in the energy and related industries. The new Rekord DZBF Series Taps feature technology developed by Emuge (Emuge CBTz) that eliminates the formation of long continuous chips that commonly occur when tapping carbon steels, alloy steels, and austenitic stainless steels.

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Coolant-Through Drills Boost Metal Removal Rates

OSG Tap & Die has added coolant-through capabilities to its Hy-Pro Carb 3D and 5D drill series.

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Job Fair: General Tool

Machinists with experience on five-axis machines, horizontal boring mills or VTLs are invited to stop by for an interview and a tour.

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Insertable Form Drilling Systems Increase Efficiency

With Schwanog’s PWP and PWP-D insertable form drilling systems, only the insertable carbide tool is ground and not the entire solid carbide drill, increasing efficiency and cost savings.

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Basics

Contouring Head Basics

Know how contouring boring heads work? If not, here’s a quick explanation.

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High-Speed Laser Drilling With Air Flow Testing for 0.2-mm Holes

The FlowComp closed-loop hardware and software feature from Prima North America's Laserdyne Systems combines laser drilling with air flow measurement on the company’s 795 and 450 multi-axis laser systems.  

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Toolholders

Accurate Live Tools Save Lives

By swapping its previous live toolholders for Mimatic models from Lyndex-Nikken, this manufacturer improved accuracy and rigidity in a critical drilling operation for a life-saving emergency rescue tool.

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Long-Lasting Inserts Break Drilling Bottleneck

Allied Machine & Engineering’s Gen3sys XT high-penetration drilling system helped this small job shop alleviate a drilling operation bottleneck and realize significant time and cost savings.

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Micro Collets Increase Spindle Accuracy

Ibag North America’s micro collet system is designed to improve accuracies for precision milling and ultra-small drilling applications, such as in medical and other micro-manufacturing industries.

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Carbide Micro Drill Offers Flexibility

CrazyDrill Flex from Mikron Tool combines the flexibility of an HSS drill with the increased tool life and precision of a solid carbide drill.

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