Machining

Ensuring optimal grinding of stainless steel medical instruments.

Integrated automation of turning centers can be the solution to meeting production schedules and profit goals.

Machining components for solar power generation systems can be a renewable source of business.

Productive Times feature Kevin Burns Golf, 408-244-7768, www.kbputters.com. Challenge: Maximize productivity and minimize tool breakage when roughing custom putter heads. Solution: A 5-flute, solid-carbide endmill that minimizes chatter. Solution Provider: Dura-Mill Inc., 800-444-6455, www.duramill.com.

Machinist's Corner column from January 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Machine Technology column from the January 2010 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Youth skills training for machinists takes place in schools with metalworking programs and in connection with competitions, such as WorldSkills.

Indexable-insert tool repair can require a lot more than a manual machine. CNC machines and inspection equipment are often needed to effectively refurbish tools.

A growing number of machine shops are switching from gundrills to solid-carbide drills for deep-hole applications.

Milling plastics is just easy enough to be difficult.

Finishing hardened workpieces on multitask machines that provide grinding and hard turning and/or hard milling capabilities can prove beneficial.

Precision Dormer filmed its R571 CDX-DH "One-hit" Deep-Hole Drillmaking holes 102mm deep at a speed of 157mm/min. and feed rate of0.14mm/rev.