Cutting Tools & Tooling

News • February 23, 2017

MITGI earns Manufacturer of the Year honor

Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding Inc. (MITGI), which manufactures and markets standard and custom cutting tools, has been named Manufacturer of the Year in the small company category by the Manufacturers Alliance, a Minnesota association that promotes education and peer-to-peer mentoring in the state's manufacturing industry.

Products • February 22, 2017

90-degree Skiving Drilling and Milling Head

EXSYS Tool's 90-degree Skiving Drilling and Milling Head not only provides angled drilling and milling capabilities on turning centers, but also enables the machines to perform gear skiving operations. The new head cuts gear patterns faster than conventional gear shaping or broaching methods and generates both internal and external gears with helical profiles, as well as gears close to part shoulders without interference.

Products • February 22, 2017

EF-Series Solid-Carbide Microdrills

Emuge Corp. announced it has expanded its EF-Series of high-penetration rate drills with a new line of submicrograin carbide coolant-fed microdrills. The EF high-performance microdrills range from 0.0295 in. (0.75 mm) up to 0.1181 in. (3.0 mm) in diameter, are all coolant through design, and are ideal for aerospace, medical and precision automotive applications designed for producing very small deep holes in steel, cast iron, stainless steels and nonferrous materials.

Videos • February 20, 2017

The CNC Chef: Tackling tool rubbing | Episode 1

In the debut episode of The CNC Chef, Bob Warfield from CNCCookbook.com cautions against slowing down your feed rate to avoid tool rubbing. A new monthly video series from Cutting Tool Engineering, The CNC Chef will address a variety of machining challenges in the coming months.

Products • February 20, 2017

Expanded Line of DrillMeister Exchangeable-Head Drills

DrillMeister features simple and swift drill head indexing due to its self-clamping system. Tool replacement is easy: just replace the drill head. There is no need to remove the entire drill body from the toolholder and re-adjust the tool overhang, thus reducing a large amount of tool change time.

Products • February 20, 2017

CMT Milling Head

Engineered for use with the standard CMT toolholder (S35 type), Carmex's new high-performance milling head uses multiple indexable inserts for threading, grooving, chamfering and facing. With a cutting diameter of 41mm, a thread pitch of up to 4mm and a groove depth to 9mm, CMT accepts four triple-edged round profile inserts for high precision and enhanced performance.

Products • February 17, 2017

Basic Mill Solid-Carbide Endmills

HAIMER introduces their newest line of endmills, the Basic Mill. The Basic Mill is all the quality you would expect from a Haimer endmill – reduced to the essentials. Basic Mill solid-carbide endmills are created with H6 shank tolerances using cutting edge geometries with an unequal flute and helix design, which reduces vibration while machining.

Articles • February 16, 2017

Metalworking Product Review: February 2017

The Metalworking Product Review in the February 2017 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering features: Heller Machine Tools, FP 4000 5-axis HMC with twin drives in the Z-axis; Seco Tools LLC, 150.10-JETI parting-off system with HSS blades, Jetstream Tooling technology and tool blocks with coolant inlets; Wayne Products, the Mini-Skimmer R.S. belt-type oil skimmer; Fagor Automation USA, the CNC 8060 T.

Products • February 15, 2017

GARANT MasterSteel PickPocket Milling Cutter

The Hoffmann Group offers a universal milling cutter for cutting steel from the MasterSteel product range. The GARANT MasterSteel PickPocket is for all milling disciplines.

Products • February 9, 2017

Saw Blades and Side Chip Clearance Saws

Controx-Neuhauser presents a full line of standard saw blades and side chip clearance saws suitable for a wide range of precision cutting applications. Available in U.S. Imperial dimensions with diameters from 1" to 8" and metric dimensions from 20mm to 250mm, with fine, medium and coarse tooth pitch to suit application requirements.

Products • February 9, 2017

Mobile App to Support Boring Operations

BIG KAISER offers a mobile app to support boring operations. Leveraging the precision of BIG KAISER tooling through remote real-time information access further improves productivity and control on the factory floor.

Products • February 7, 2017

Wohlhaupter’s MVS Modular Connection System

Allied Machine & Engineering announces the continued success of Wohlhaupter's MVS modular connection system. Part of the Multibore collection, the MVS connection is a flexible system designed primarily for drilling and boring, with application possibilities in tapping, endmilling and light shell milling.