Milling Cutters
A Cutting Moment
Travis Biggs, applications engineer, technical service, for Greenleaf Corp., offers the nitty gritty on the tools used in this 1 minute and 40 second video featuring a 5/8" ball nose tool followed by the company's Extreme Feed Mill 1" dia., 4-tooth cutting tool.
Driving diesel
Watch Sandvik Coromant Co.'s CoroMill 365 cutter mill an engine blockmade of compacted graphite iron in this online complement to our September CTE cover story.
Thread milling
Rather than using taps to thread steel prior to hardening, a growing number of shops are opting to thread mill heat-treated steel.
Multitasking video
A Studer brand S242 machine, which combines hard milling and grinding, is shown hard milling a toolholder without coolant, then grinding the holder's taper with coolant to achieve the required surface finish. This video is a supplement to the January 2010 Cutting Tool Engineering feature—"Finish Line"—about finishing hardened workpieces on multitasking machines.
Hard turning steel
Video shows Becker CBN inserts being used to hard turn 62Rc d2 steel. The inserts are sold in the U.S. by Rani Tool Corp.