Cutting Tools & Tooling

Rockford Ettco Procunier's high-speed, high-volume tapper is for those who need the productivity of a versatile independent drilling and tapping machine without the expense of a CNC machine.

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp., Cutting Tool Div.'s MFPN facemill accepts PNMU inserts, which have a double-sided, pentagonal design that provides 10 cutting edges per insert.

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.

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.

Sandvik Coromant's recently introduced insert grade GC1125 is now complemented with the new grade GC1135.

Sandvik Coromant offers more than 300 inserts in a series of ISO S turning geometries for machining high-temperature and titanium alloys.

Aug. 2010 — Designed to make tapping easier, Speedaire Hand Tappers from W.W. Grainger Inc. are ideal for general-purpose tapping.

The Showa Super Drill system, distributed by ERI America, allows for precision drilling of holes up to 15 times their diameter from 50 — 270mm (1.97 — 10.63"), to a maximum depth of 1800mm (70.86").

Walter USA LLC reports that its Tiger-tec Silver CVD-coated cutting tool material offers extreme toughness for high thermal shock resistance and enhanced wear characteristics at high machining temperatures.

Korloy America Inc.'s HRMDouble Mill series cutting tools accept inserts with six cutting edges. According to the company, the cutting edge's high rake angle enables high-feed machining and improves multifunctional machining, which also reduces the cutting load.

Niagara Cutter Inc. says its carbide thread mills provide high-quality threads, increase productivity and perform consistently.

Mil-Tec's Magna-Shear geometry is ground on all insert surfaces and has a premolded chip-clearing formation.