Measuring the ‘real’ edge contour
Achieve a higher accuracy and resolution when measuring cutting tools and components. An optical 3-D measurement system.
Editorial
Alan Richter
Alan Richter, a 40-plus-year veteran journalist, has spent the last 25 years covering the metalworking industry for Cutting Tool Engineering and currently serves as its editor-at-large. Contact him at [email protected].
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Email: alan@ctepubs.com
Published content
Shop has need for speed
Achieve a 24-hour-maximum turnaround time on aluminum prototypes for tablet computers. Endmills designed for maximum metal-removal rate when cutting aluminum.
Grip and go: 5-Axis Machining
Vise jaws that grip as little as 2mm of workpiece material without special tooling or machining a gripping feature.
Cold cuts: Drilling Performance
A new cryogenic cooling milling tool.
Single-layered approach: The fundamentals of using coated abrasives in metalworking
Whether the surface-treatment task involves deburring, blending, grinding, polishing, finishing, dimensioning, patterning or shaping a metal workpiece, there's a coated-abrasive product available to get the job done. The products include belts, rolls, sheets, pads and flap discs and wheels.
A tale of two shops
Separate yet combined is an apt description of Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument. Located on New York's Long Island, in New Hyde Park, both sides of the company were founded, and are still managed, by engineers.
Superhard automation
Simultaneously improve product quality and productivity when EDMing PCD and PCBN cutting tools and wear parts. An automation process that incorporates work cells.
Playing it smart: General Industry Coverage
Cutting cycle time for a 3,000-piece run. Two wire EDMs.
Drilling with pinpoint precision
Achieve tightened tolerances and increase throughput when machining microholes and other microscale features. Two new machine tools, each with 0.5µm positioning accuracy and a 50,000-rpm maximum spindle speed.
Don’t hold the onions
A nanoscale metalworking fluid additive.
Coat, don’t plate: General Industry Coverage
A tungsten carbide-based CVD coating that's an environmentally friendly alternative to hard-chrome plating.
A shop grows in Brooklyn
Tucked into the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Linda Tool, a family-owned machine shop, is adding to its capabilities.
