Cutting Tools & Tooling

Products • October 1, 2010

Opti-Form

Gleason Corp. has introduced a new series of Opti-Form Honing Wheels that reduce the time typically required to perform the initial tool dressing by as much as 50 percent, while at the same time improving both the tool life of the honing wheel and the master gear used for dressing.

Products • October 1, 2010

Beyond Blast inserts channel coolant through inserts

Kennametal Inc.'s Beyond Blast inserts channel coolant through the insert to the milling cutter/insert interface.

Products • October 1, 2010

Victory M1200 Facemills

Widia has added tool bodies and inserts to its Victory M1200 series for facemilling steel, stainless steel, high-strength steel, cast iron and nonferrous materials.

Products • October 1, 2010

7792VXE16 Shell Mill

ATI Stellram has introduced the 7792VXE16 high-feed shell mill cutter for machining titanium and nickel- and cobalt-base alloys.

Products • October 1, 2010

SlimLine Drivers

Wiha Tools has introduced insulated SlimLine blades and screwdrivers.

Videos • September 11, 2010

Powdered metallurgy

Watch a video presentation from Seco Tools LLC about the tools and techniques suggested for machining powdered metallurgy. The company reports that inserts with Seco Tool's Duratomic CVD aluminum-oxide coating can work well for P/M components. The Duratomic technology promotes growth of coating crystals in certain crystallographic directions to improve coating properties.

Videos • September 11, 2010

IMTS 2010 Booth Visit with BIG Kaiser

Matt Tegelman, application manager and product manager with BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, Hoffman Estates, Ill., provides an overview of the products featured at the company's IMTS 2010 booth.

Videos • September 11, 2010

IMTS 2010 Booth Visit with Allied Machine & Engineering Corp.

Allied representatives Heather Kaiser, Jim Porter and Brad Gray offer a brief look at the company's newest product lines as well as a quick product demonstration at their IMTS 2010 booth.

Articles • September 1, 2010 • Alan Richter

Ti machines

Designing machine tools for cutting titanium—especially 5553.

Articles • September 1, 2010

Low cost vs. real cost

What is the real cost of a cutting tool when it is applied? Carefully controlled tests provide the answer.

Products • September 1, 2010

Power 4 Cutter for Turbine Blade Production

Seco Tools' new Power 4 copy milling cutter has been developed in cooperation with customers in the power generation sector to create an optimized solution for turbine blade production.

Products • September 1, 2010

High-performance carbide drills

YG-1 Tool Co. Ltd. has added high-performance carbide drills for stainless steel to its drill line. Other additions include carbide microdrills and drills for drilling steel hardened up to 68 HRC, and HSS and cobalt drills.