Machining

Products • January 9, 2017

Through-Coolant Solid-Carbide Thread Mills

Tool-Flo is now offering solid-carbide thread mills with helical flutes and through coolant. The company offers a wide array of thread forms including 60° V-threads, BSPT, ISO, MJ, NPSF, NPT, NPTF, UN and Whitworth threads.

Products • January 9, 2017

Vulcan Compression Endmills

Kyocera's new Vulcan compression endmills are for routing composites. The Vulcan compression endmill is designed with up-cut and down-cut flutes to compress the composite material, preventing delamination.

Products • January 9, 2017

Indexable Punch Broach Toolholder

Slater Tools' new indexable punch broach toolholder facilitates punch or index broaching on a CNC lathe or mill. When rotary broaching is not an option due to the need to remove full form, excessive material and/or depth, static punch broaching is the preferred method of CNC broaching.

Articles • January 6, 2017 • Kip Hanson

A custom grind

Sam Yu, president and owner of Corona, Calif.-based Machine Control Technologies Inc., said he builds specialty tool and cutter grinders in months—and at a fraction the price of competitors' custom grinders.

Products • January 6, 2017

Cutting Tool Grinding and Reconditioning Services

Emuge Corp. has introduced tool grinding and reconditioning services based out of the company's North American headquarters in West Boylston, Mass. A clean, new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Emuge is now equipped with the latest technology CNC grinding machines and inspection equipment, providing tool reconditioning for U.S. and Canadian customers for Emuge taps, drills and endmills, in addition to other brands of carbide drills and endmills.

Products • January 6, 2017

ABC 7 Cordless Belt Grinder

The cordless belt grinder ABC 7 from Suhner is for when you are working on applications with tight spaces. For example, in fillet welds or miters. The machine is characterized by extremely fast belt changes for grinding or polishing applications.

Products • January 6, 2017

a120nx Horizontal Machining Center

Makino announces its newest addition to the nx-series, the a120nx horizontal machining center. As the largest machining platform within the nx-series to date, this machine is built to take on oversized structural components for industrial equipment, diesel engines and semiconductor manufacturing, while delivering high levels of speed and accuracy.

Products • January 6, 2017

Diamond Dressers

For more than 75 years, Fives has been synonymous with quality diamond dressers from CITCO Tools. Today, Fives continues this tradition by offering a broad line of diamond dressing tools.

Products • January 6, 2017

Smart Damper Boring Bar

BIG KAISER announces the release of the Smart Damper boring bar for lathe applications. A heavyweight, strengthened damping mechanism integrated into the toolholder functions as both a dynamic counter and friction damper.

Products • January 6, 2017

VTC-805E Vertical Traveling-Column Machining Center

The Mazak VTC-805E vertical traveling-column machining center brings high versatility and productivity to those shops that need to tackle long and/or heavy parts. The machine combines an increased Y-axis stroke, long bed/table size, high spindle speed and torque and Mazak's new SmoothG CNC for efficient, powerful machining, according to the company.

Articles • January 5, 2017 • William Leventon

Financing your next machine tool

Machine tools are big-ticket items, so it's no surprise that they're normally acquired using some sort of financing. In addition to banks, financing can be obtained from machine tool OEMs and nonbank lenders known as finance companies.

Articles • January 4, 2017 • Michael Deren

Lean from 30,000 feet

Michael Deren, who writes the Machinist's Corner column for Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, explains why he now believes wholeheartedly in lean manufacturing.