Surface Finishing & Coating

Articles • August 1, 2009

Concentric engineering

In addition to handling prototype and production machining, R.E.F. Precision Products LLC, Deer Park, N.Y., provides engineering and productivity consulting services.

Articles • August 1, 2009

Tips for sanding titanium parts

Sanding, or benching, titanium alloy parts is a major cost element of the manufacturing process. Sanding removes burrs and improves surface finish to achieve drawing specifications.

Articles • August 1, 2009 • Dr. LaRoux K. Gillespie

Hit it again, harder

When finishing parts, shops may want to hit them with their best shot. Shot peening can produce longer part life.

Articles • June 1, 2009 • Dr. LaRoux K. Gillespie

Surface Strategy

Parts that meet drawing dimensions can still end up as scrap if they lack surface integrity.

Articles • May 1, 2009 • Joseph Hazelton

Straight to a round

Parts manufacturers should head straight to their high-strength round inserts to turn nickel-base alloys.

Articles • May 1, 2009 • Alan Richter

Clean, green and lean

Shops can be both lean and green by using work cell-based approach to parts washing and environmentally friendly cleaning compounds and technologies.

Articles • April 1, 2009 • Dr. LaRoux K. Gillespie

Burr tabs

The cost of burrs in manufacturing are surprisingly high. Tracking and reducing costs or--better yet--minimizing burr formation can improve productivity.

Articles • March 1, 2009 • Edmund Isakov, Ph.D.

Tools With Abrasive Personalities

Machining polymetric composite materials with single-layer diamond abrasive tools.

Articles • March 1, 2009 • Bill Kennedy

Wheels Up

New materials, the need for lightweight parts and the burgeoning size of some aircraft challenge manufacturers of landing gear components.

Articles • January 1, 2009 • Sashko Kurciski

SURFCAM Velocity 4 for HSM

January 2009 Get With The Program column

Videos • December 15, 2008

Double Duty

Data Flute CNC's Cliff Flynn, director of research and new product development, gets rough with the company's AFDH finishing tool in this 5-minute report. Flynn noted that the demonstration provided at IMTS 2008 was purposely aggressive on the finishing tool to underscore its finishing ability.

Articles • October 1, 2008 • Alan Richter

Coating’s Holy Grail

Commercialization of cubic boron nitride coatings has proven elusive, but a two-step process for coating cutting tools with CBN is expected to come to market soon.