Tooling

Workholding

CNC Bar Pullers For Low-Cost Automation

Royal Products says its range of CNC bar pullers can automate virtually any CNC lathe or turning center freeing operators to handle other tasks.

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Workholding

Short Bar Loader For CNC Lathe Automation

 Edge Technologies’ Rebel Ecofeed is a compact bar loader that features a 5- to 65-mm-diameter capacity range for feeding spindle-length round, square, hexagonal and shaped barstock into CNC lathes.

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Automation

Flexible Pallet Automation Achieves High Spindle Utilization

Toyoda Machinery offers modular and expandable automation with its Flexible Pallet Automation (FPA) systems.

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Die/Mold

Video: The Role of Heat in High Speed Machining

In high speed machining of die/mold steels, the heat has a more beneficial effect than the role it plays in conventional cuts.

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Holemaking

The Value Of Indexable-Insert Center Drills

This indexable-insert center drill, said to be an industry first, combines the drilling performance advantages of solid carbide with the positioning repeatability and quick-change benefits common to indexable-insert tooling.

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Turning Tools

Tooling Improves Productivity In Small-Diameter Face Grooving Applications

 The Beyond carbide grade of face grooving inserts and tooling from Kennametal includes three new geometries for small-diameter internal and external applications. The precision-ground and molded styles are available in both flat-edge and full-radius face grooving geometries.

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Holemaking

CKN Modular System For Large Boring

 BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling’s CKN modular connection utilizes both steel and lightweight aluminum components.

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Milling Tools

End Mills Feature Corner Radius

 Primary Cutter’s Supermill All-Purpose line of carbide end mills features a corner radius designed to meet stringent application demands and provide increased tool life.

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Toolholders

Variable Center-Distance Multispindle Heads

Distributed by Tapmatic, OMG’s variable center-distance multispindle heads include the T series, the VH series and the TSI-TSX series.

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Milling Tools

PCD-, PCBN-Tipped Milling Inserts

Iscar’s Tangmill ID5 PCD wiper insert and two Helimill inserts, which are tipped with IB85 PCBN, are suited for machining cast iron and a range of difficult-to-machine materials at high cutting rates.

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