Cutting Tools & Tooling

Designing machine tools for cutting titanium—especially 5553.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.