General Shop Equipment & Supplies

A Studer brand S242 machine, which combines hard milling and grinding, is shown hard milling a toolholder without coolant, then grinding the holder's taper with coolant to achieve the required surface finish.

Precision Dormer filmed its R571 CDX-DH "One-hit" Deep-Hole Drillmaking holes 102mm deep at a speed of 157mm/min. and feed rate of0.14mm/rev.

Iscar designed drills for small-diameter, deep holes in automotive crankshafts, camshafts, connecting rods and more—all with minimum quantity lubrication.

Thinking about using cluster diamonds? Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, suggests going at least 4x faster than with a single-point diamond in the 5th episode of the video series.

Productive Times. End user: Mitchel & Scott Machine Co. Challenge: Cut thread milling cycle time. Solution: A shell-type thread milling cutter head. Solution provider: JBO-USA, (248) 879-5984.

Productives Times: Proactive progress. End user: Ford Motor Co., Lima Engine Plant. Challenge: Improve productivity and maximize quality when machining aluminum heads. Solution: Replaceable-head reamers with PCD cutting edges. Solution provider: Mapal Inc.

Grinding Doc column for December 2009 issue.

Part Time column for December 2009 issue.

Machine Technology column for December 2009 issue.

Manager's Desk column for December 2009 issue.

The metalworking industry sustained a body blow in 2009, but it's getting back on its feet as 2010 nears.

A further examination of the grinding process through the lens of an electron microscope.