Eco-Line Bandsaws
Peddinghaus Corp. offers a wide range of Eco-Line band saws for cutting of steel.
Operation / Process
Machining
Thread Grinding
This short video provides some insight into the benefits and time savings afforded by a universal grinding machine. It is presented as supplemental information to Cutting Tool Engineering's December 2011 cover story, "A Pitch for Thread Grinding."
No-dress test
Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, responds to a shop that performs high-production grinding of small parts and experiences trouble when determining how much to dress a wheel. Watch the 24th episode now.
Doing it the Hard Way
Thinking about taking the leap into milling hardened steels? Why would you? After all, if your shop has been successfully grinding, jig boring and EDMing hardened materials, why change?
Flight Path
Triumph Actuation Systems makes systems that keep aircraft flying straight. Read more about the making of the systems that keep "big birds" in line.
A Pitch for Thread Grinding
When accuracy counts, thread grinding shines. It may not be a new twist, but thread grinding is still one of the most accurate ways to produce internal and external threads.
Long, hard life
One of the Look Ahead features in this month's Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers a new CBN superabrasive for grinding wheels that extends wheel life and lowers grinding forces.
Supercool
Find out more about a cryogenic lubrication technology based on supercritical CO2 in this month's Look Ahead feature.
No more blowups
END USER: Marquardt Engineering Inc., (847) 669-0690, www.marquardt-eng.com. CHALLENGE: Eliminate chatter to prevent indexable inserts from blowing up and causing catastrophic tool body failure when drilling 4150 prehardened steel. SOLUTION: A new drill body and inserts. SOLUTION PROVIDER: Tungaloy America Inc., (888) 554-8394, www.tungaloyamerica.com
Making the most of metal sawing
The Shop Operations column in the December 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine offers some tips when sawing metal.
Manufacturing: The comeback kid
The Manager's Desk column in the December 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering addresses the importance of developing interest in manufacturing careers.
Quantifying machine error motions
Quantifying machine tool error motions in this month's Machine Technology column by Dr. Scott Smith of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.