Milling Cutters

Plunge Milling: High volume roughing on your machine

Tom Noble and Bill Fiorenza of Ingersoll Cutting Tools present "Plunge Milling: High Volume Roughing on Your Machine" as part of the Fast Track Seminar series hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS 2010.

Pinch milling

DMG/Mori Seiki demonstrates how it uses pinch milling to machine thin-walled workpieces, such as fan stage blades.

Triple nickel milling

ATI Stellram and Sandvik Coromant offer demonstrations of their milling cutters as part of this aerospace report.

RobbJack demos high-speed milling

Presented as an online supplement to Cutting Tool Engineering's July 2012 report on high-speed milling, the following video from the RobbJack Corp., Lincoln, Calif., demonstrate a variety of high-speed milling operations.

Milling around with Kennametal

Scott Etling, manager of Global Product Management for Kennametal Inc.'s indexable milling products, discussed the company's Dodeka face mills and Rodeka copy mills for a CTEplus video report shot during IMTS 2012.

Slot milling demo

An Iscar ¼ " solid-carbide FINISHED endmill reduced cycle time from more than 6.5 hours to 8 minutes when slotting an A-36 steel oil pan at SFI.

CoroMill 425 Facemill

With CoroMill 425, Sandvik Coromant offers an eight-edge finishing tool designed for face milling that greatly improves metal removal rate and tool life in the ISO K application area. Due to its innovative setting system, it is particularly user-friendly.

BLAXX M3024 Heptagon Milling Cutter

Walter has unveiled the Walter BLAXX M3024 heptagon milling cutter, the latest entry in its line of high-productivity milling tools. The M3024, in diameters from 1.5" to 6.0" (40mm to 160mm) boasts the line's trademark wear-protected black tool body, plus indexable inserts with 14 cutting edges, which reduces tooling costs.

335.25 disc milling cutters

Seco Tools LLC, Troy, Mich., introduced two new insert sizes to its family of 335.25 disc milling cutters, a line that is said to provide manufacturers with high flexibility and productivity. With the additions of XNHQ inserts in 9mm and 12mm sizes, the cutter now offers a range of cutting widths from 0.531" to 1.26" (13mm to 32mm) for an even greater variety of applications.

MC251 Advance solid carbide milling cutters

Walter Tools, Waukesha, Wis., recently introduced its new Advance product line, which the company claims increases tool life up to 50 percent. The MC251 Advance solid carbide milling cutters from Walter's Prototyp brand is said to be the ideal geometry for machining stainless materials from material group ISO M and for secondary applications in ISO S materials, according to the company.