Tooling

Cutting Tools

Tight-Tolerance Hole Making in Composites

Sandvik offers a range of drills designed for rivet and bolt holes in carbon reinforced plastics and metallic stack materials.

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Cutting Tools

Solid Carbide Deep-Hole Drill

Seco Tools’ Feedmax SD230A solid carbide, 30×D drill is designed for applications in the automotive, oil and gas, mold and die, medical and general engineering industries.

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Toolholders

European Live Tools Designed for CNC Lathes

Lyndex-Nikken offers Mimatic Tool Systems’ live tools, which are manufactured to Mazak specifications and designed to enhance CNC lathe performance.

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Cutting Tools

Deep-Hole Drills Increase Throughput

In applications ranging to 30×D, solid-carbide Widia-Rubig deep-hole drills are said to remove between three and four times more metal than gun drills.

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Milling Tools

Where More Flutes Make Sense

A tool with many flutes can be effective for achieving a productive metal removal rate in titanium, where speed and chip load are constrained.

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Cutting Tools

Low Cutting Force Inserts and ToolHolders

For parts that measure less than 0.125" (3.18 mm) in diameter, Tungaloy America offers a series of high-positive, low-cutting-force, screw-down inserts and toolholders.

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Cutting Tools

Inserts Accelerate Turning Productivity

Kennametal’s Beyond inserts for its FixPerfect system are designed to improve toughness, wear-resistance and increase turning productivity.

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Milling Tools

90-Degree Pocketing Aluminum - 0.250” DOC with Square Shoulder End Mill and XPET-ALU Inserts from Dapra

(sponsored content) This video demonstrates Dapra's 1" Square Shoulder End Mill executing a pocketing routine in aluminum.

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Milling Tools

Micromachining Powder Metal on a VMC

By refining its micromachining process for powder metal tool steels, this shop has reduced production costs, lead times and secondary bench work for complex tooling components.

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Deburring

Band File Deburrs Hard-to-Reach Places

The BFE 9-90 electronic band file is designed for metal removal and deburring in hard-to-reach places.

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MMS Leaders in CNC Machining