Making a Better Grade
Composite carbide substrates can improve the performance of rotary tools.
Product Category
Materials & Raw Stock
Turn to the Unusual
By expanding into machining exotic alloys, shops can attract new customers and better serve existing ones.
A Better Braze
A comparison of two processes for brazing PCBN onto carbide.
A Mixed Grade
The latest grades of polycrystalline diamond mix coarse and fine particles to increase packing density and yield a more continuous cutting edge.
Powder Surge
Growing use of powder metals is creating new machining challenges.
Composite Dreaming
making aerospace parts, composites, composite materials, graphite-epoxy composites, Boeing 7E7, Dreamliner, aerospace materials
Hardmetal Steel
Powder metallurgy can allow harder, tougher HSS tools to replace solid-carbide cutters in high-shock and high-stock-removal applications.
Recovery Processes
Options and considerations for processing and removing metal chips.
More for Less
PCD tool costs drop as available styles proliferate.
Cutting CGI PDQ
A rotary cutter permits high-speed machining of compacted graphite iron.
Machining Be
How to safely and effectively machine beryllium (Be).
Black Art
Advice on milling graphite electrodes.