Tooling

Workholding

Hydraulic Chucks Offer Secondary Sequential Top Clamping

A line of Prohold hydraulic chucks available from American Workholding enables additional hydraulic operations before or after the initial chucking of the workpiece.

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Holemaking

Drilling Machines Designed for BTA Drilling

Zagar’s Precihole BTA deep hole drilling machines are designed for BTA or single tube system (STS) drilling.

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CAD/CAM

Replacing Broaching with Milling

Trochoidal milling is a toolpath technique generally applied to increase tool life or material removal rate in hard metals. Manufacturing solutions provider Iruba also relies on this approach to make a shaped milling tool effective.

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Five-Axis

Video: Blisk Milling

The process seen here uses trochoidal tool paths and cryogenic cooling

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Deburring

Micro-Carbide Tools for Deburring

Heule Precision Tools offers a catalog on its Micro Cofa series of front and back universal deburring tools.

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Holemaking

Mitsui Seiki Offers Jig Borer Refurbishment

The company manufactures three types of jig boring machines.

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Cutting Tools

Insert Geometries Designed for Turning

Walter USA has added four cutting tool insert geometries to its Tiger-tec Silver for turning family.

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Cutting Tools

Uncoated Grades for Die Steel Manufacturing

The BN1000 and BN2000 uncoated grades from Sumitomo Electric Carbide are suited for high speed to general-purpose turning in bearing and die steel manufacturing.

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Aerospace

The Big Step Up

A small shop added two new machines, each of which is more advanced than any of the previous machine tools the company has used. One of the co-owners committed to the work of bringing both of these machines fully into service. Here is the shop’s experience so far.

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Cutting Tools

iPad App Enables Product Comparison

The Kennametal Innovations app for the iPad features interactive animations and real-world demonstrations of the company’s technology in use.

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