Tooling
How to Improve Peck Drilling Canned Cycles
Most CNCs don’t have a canned cycle for machining deep holes into malleable materials. Here’s what you do.
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Sunnen's DirectDex Deep-Hole Drilling System for Heat-Resistant Superalloys
Sunnen Products Co.’s DirectDex series of drill heads, inserts and pads are said to be directly interchangeable with Sandvik deep-hole drilling tools.
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Sandvik Coromant Introduces New Insert Geometries for Grooving
Sandvik Coromant has added the -M30 and -L50 insert geometry options for its CoroMill 331 milling cutter.
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Metalworking News of Note: November 2019
Orderfox.com adds an RFQ service for its users, Sandvik Coromant begins construction on new tech center in North Carolina, and other news from the metalworking industry.
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Sandvik Coromant to Build Tech Center in Mebane, North Carolina
The location is central to the company’s aerospace and automotive customers as well as three large research universities.
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Fabricator's Toolroom Becomes Captive CNC Machine Shop
Toolroom problem-solving yields high-production profit when a sheet metal fabricating business accepts a difficult machining contract.
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Tungaloy Expands DoTwistBall Series with New Shell Mill Diameters
DoTwistBall is designed to provide reliability during complex 3D milling processes.
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Niagara Cutter ST540 from Seco Extends End Mill's Versatility
Seco Tools has expanded Niagara Cutter’s Stabilizer product line with the five-flute ST540 end mill designed to increase performance and versatility.
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Platinum Tooling Offers Heimatec Base Mount Tooling
Platinum Tooling Technologies offers Heimatec Base Mount Tooling (BMT) products.
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A New Spin on CNC Machining Face Grooves
Here is an alternative to standard end milling — an operation performed on a CNC milling machine to produce circular grooves in the part face. This new single-point trepanning tooling strategy can produce both symmetrical and asymmetrical face grooves, too, and perform fly cutting.
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