Hunting for Reliability
Hunting Energy Services not only machines oil and gas drilling components—it assembles and repairs the tools that do the work.
Operation / Process
Machining
The Hole Edge
Machining a clean, straight and in-tolerance hole through a part is not the only requirement for many holemaking applications. In many cases, hole entrances and exits are also critical to part functionality.
Small But Mighty
New technology opens up new applications for small HMCs.
Fixturing 101
Machinist's Corner column from the March 2011 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering tackles the essentials of part fixturing.
Adapt or die
Lead Angle is the editorial opinion for Cutting Tool Engineering. The editorial this month examines the myth that the U.S. doesn't manufacture anything anymore.
Cutting Time for Facing
Comparison between calculating cutting time when facing at a constant cutting speed vs. a constant rpm.
HELIDO 845-13
A major expansion of the ISCAR HELIDO 845-13 mill family brings the efficiency and economy of these popular tools to a wider size and application range.
HELIDO Profiler Family
ISCAR has expanded its popular line of HELIDO ROUND H400 fine-pitch mills to improve profile machining and ramping over a wider range of applications.
iPhone app
From accessing important tool data to placing orders online in the Walter Toolshop: Walter Tools & More app enables users to do both while on the move.
CUT-GRIP Grooving Inserts
ISCAR has launched a line of improved CUT-GRIP grooving inserts for ID grooving that features the N-type chipformer that has proven so effective in OD turning of problematic metals.
HELITANG UPFEED
A new high-feed milling cutter extends the benefits of ISCAR's HELITANG UPFEED tangential milling cutters to ramping work as well.
CoroMill Plura
Sandvik Coromant introduces a new range of small CoroMill Plura ball nose end mills for profiling in medium hard to hard steels.