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Catalog Features Tools For Increased Productivity
The 2010 full-color catalog from Imco Carbide Tool features case studies and user testimonials that include tips for increased productivity, sustained performance and extended tool life.
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Versatile Turning Geometry
ATI Stellram offers a versatile geometry for finish turning components ranging from steel to high-temperature alloys.
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Tool for Shallow, High-Feed Cuts Speeds Roughing
“Feed fast, cut shallow.” This strategy, in combination with a cutting tool specifically designed to take advantage of it—the Power Feed+ from Ingersoll—enabled this shop to reduce cycle time on a tough prototyping job by a factor of five and increase insert life by a factor of six.
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When Spindle Speed is a Constraint
Though it won’t replace high speed machining, Boeing sees “low speed machining” as a viable supplement to higher-rpm machines. Using new tools and techniques, a shop’s lower-rpm machining centers can realize much more of their potential productivity in milling aluminum aircraft parts.
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Video: Getting the Most Out of Your Standard Spindle
High spindle speed is not needed for high productivity, particularly with the right choice of cutting tool types. Techniques described in this tutorial video relate to plunge roughing, high feed milling and slotting.
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Video: Plunge Roughing in Aluminum
Even in aluminum, plunge roughing can be an effective way to realize high productivity.
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Video: High Feed Milling in Aluminum
Footage shows roughing at 48 cubic inch per minute on a standard-speed machining center.
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Try 110
First, recall this scene in the movie "This is Spinal Tap" where Brit guitarist Nigel Tufnel deftly explains the value of having amps with knobs that go to 11 (versus most blokes’ amps that only go to 10). Now, consider the following machining tip as you replay that “one louder” scene in your mind: Turn the feed rate override to 110 percent.
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Accessory Jaws Feature Movable Pins
Lang’s Vario Tec accessory jaws are designed for use in a 6" Kurt vise.
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Tool Presetter/Measuring Machine Handles Cutting Tools, Electrodes
Traditionally, electrodes have been measured in two different ways: either directly in the erosion machine or on a CMM.
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