A Structured Repair
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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].
Editor-at-large
Email: alan@ctepubs.com
Published content
Threading Large: General Industry Coverage
With the right tools, threadmilling large bore diameters doesn't have to be daunting. Read the article and check out a brief video of several threadmilling demonstrations offered by Allied Machine & Engineering Corp.
Testing Hyper-Carbide limits: Turning Performance
When SRL Nano Corp. developed carbide-grade tools that use a patented binder material with a melting threshold similar to that of carbide—about 2,870º C, naturally the Rosemead, Calif., company dubbed the new material Hyper-Carbide. And once you view the video below that captures a series of cutting tool tests, it's easy to see why.
Burning Higher Volumes: General Industry Coverage
Better technology boosts use of EDMs for production applications.
Ti machines
Designing machine tools for cutting titanium—especially 5553.
CTE 2010 Salary Survey: Industry Trends & Analysis
Read CTE's 2010 Salary Survey to learn which metalworking positions are up and which ones are down in earnings since the 2008 survey, and how benefit packages have changed.
Holemaking alternatives: Drilling Performance
Several alternatives mechanical drilling make sense when the application is right.
Getting reaming right: Drilling Performance
Appropriate scenarios for applying a reamer when finishing holes.
Turning nasty
Insert geometries for effectively turning high-temperature superalloys.
Breaking the beam: Tool Presetting
The benefits of performing tool breakage detection with a noncontact, laser-mounted monitoring system.
Monster machines
Applications, accuracy issues and infrastructure requirements for large-part machine tools.
As the robots turn: Drilling Performance
Integrated automation of turning centers can be the solution to meeting production schedules and profit goals.
