Tooling

Milling Tools

90-Degree Lead Angle Optimizes Shoulder Milling

Sumitomo Electric Carbide’s WFX cutter series features a 90-degree lead angle to optimize shoulder milling.

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Toolholders

Toolholder Directly Clamps Small Tools

Schunk’s Tribos-Mini toolholder directly clamps small tools for challenging applications, including machining medical, dental and micro-level parts.

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Workholding

Collet Pads Change Over Faster Than Solid Collets

Hardinge’s Style-S collet pads are designed to take up less space, cost less and change over faster than solid collets.

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Holemaking

Deep-Hole Gundrill Enables Easy Head Replacement

Iscar’s Chamgun gundrill for deep-hole drilling enables drilling heads to be replaced while the driver is still connected to the machine.

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Workholding

Five-Axis Clamp Eases Access to Workpieces

The Triag 5axesClamp from Advanced Machine & Engineering is designed to ease the difficulty that five-axis machines have reaching all areas parts using conventional workholding technology.

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Workholding

Lightweight Tombstone Suitable for Smaller CNCs

The Tri-Top tombstone from Lang Technovation enables the use of three devices to maximize efficiency and minimize shutdown times for four- and five-axis machines.

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Cutting Tools

Deep Holes with a Carbide Microdrill That Flexes

These microdrills combine the advantages of HSS with those of solid carbide.

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Toolholders

Video Shows How to Check Toolholder Runout

Here’s a video that explains how to check the runout on a collet chuck toolholder.

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Toolholders

Video: Checking Toolholder Runout

This short video explains how to check the runout on a collet chuck toolholder.

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Holemaking

Reaming Application Illustrates True Cost of Cutting Tools

Cutting tools have two costs: purchase price and combined cost of all time, effort and extra steps required for a particular tool.

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