Cutting Tools

A Modulated Approach to Deep-Hole Drilling

After years spent trying to overcome the challenges it had encountered drilling a deep hole in a tiny workpiece, this shop finally discovered the solution in a technology called Modulation Assisted Machining.

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Roughing End Mill Maximizes Tool Life in Titanium

SGS Tool Co. offers its Z-Carb High Performance Rougher (HPR) line of cutting tools including Imperial and metric sizes, multiple corner radius options, and the company’s Ti-Namite-M coating.

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News from Horn’s Technology Days

Every two years, cutting tool and carbide specialist Horn invites customers, distributors, suppliers and the industrial press to Tübingen, Germany for its Technology Days event. This year, the highlights include news of expanded production space, plans for a new office building and details of innovative product developments.

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Chipbreakers Enable High-Feed Turning with Good Surface Finish

Tungaloy’s FW and SW chipbreaker inserts feature a wiper geometry that enables high-feed machining while maintaining high surface quality, resulting in improved productivity in general turning operations.

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Solid Carbide Drills Eliminate Pecking, Pre-Spot Operations

Emuge offers its line of high-performance EF-series solid carbide drills said to deliver high-quality threads, long tool life, and three to five times faster penetration rate than conventional carbide and cobalt drills.

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Blind-Hole, Through-Hole Taps Handle Range of Materials

Walter USA’s high-performance Prototyp TC115 and TC216 taps are designed to make blind-hole and through-hole threads, respectively.

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Line of Aluminum Inserts for Shell, End Milling

Millstar offers an aluminum cutting insert line featuring modular screw-on heads forshell and end mill cutters with side clearance options.

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Adapter Enables Automated Deburring with Wheel Brushes

Tanis offers its Shell Mill Adapter for wheel brushes, designed to simplify wheel brush attachment to CNC machines and enable automated deburring.

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Drills Offer Improved Shearing of Composites

RobbJack/Crystallume will highlight a variety of cutting tools, including its PCD drills, which feature a solid diamond tip with geometry designed to shear better than typical flat-plane drills.

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Deburring/Chamfering Tool Offers Adjustable Cutter Depths

Heck Industries offers its Turbo-Burr handheld deburring/chamfering tool featuring a light construction.

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