Media Types
Guidelines and considerations when selecting a media for mass finishing.
Editorial
Alan Richter
Alan Richter, a 40-plus-year veteran journalist, has spent the last 26 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
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Middle Ground
Heavy-metal boring bars are for finishing holes too deep for lower-cost steel bars but not deep enough to justify the expense of carbide one.
Variations on a Theme
Toolmakers tout the benefits of variable-helix endmills.
Peel Out
peel grinding, making automotive parts, cylindrical parts, grinding wheels
The Right Angle
Selecting and making the most of an angle head when other tooling can't get the job done.
A Mixed Grade
The latest grades of polycrystalline diamond mix coarse and fine particles to increase packing density and yield a more continuous cutting edge.
Medical Advice
Cutting tool considerations for effectively machining titanium medical parts.
Tilt & Whirl
A look at applications and considerations for NC rotary tables.
Cut to the Finish
A series of short Articles on the subject of minimizing or eliminating manual mold polishing.
What’s in Store
CTE's first cost-justification and planned-expenditures survey reveals what metalcutting companies intend to buy in 2004 and why.
Top Coat
Molybdenum disulfide tool coatings improve the machining of aluminum, titanium and nickel-base alloys--even when dry.
Cool Cuts
Fundamental maintenance practices and troubleshooting tips to help achieve problem-free sawing.