Materials

Considerations when machining gray and ductile cast iron with carbide, PCBN and PCD cutting tools.

Analyze the workpiece material to increase productivity.

Router tools designed for machining mechanical plastics provide an opportunity to maximize productivity.

Composite carbide substrates can improve the performance of rotary tools.

By expanding into machining exotic alloys, shops can attract new customers and better serve existing ones.

A comparison of two processes for brazing PCBN onto carbide.

The latest grades of polycrystalline diamond mix coarse and fine particles to increase packing density and yield a more continuous cutting edge.

Growing use of powder metals is creating new machining challenges.

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Powder metallurgy can allow harder, tougher HSS tools to replace solid-carbide cutters in high-shock and high-stock-removal applications.