High on Nickel
Tool characteristics for milling high-temperature, nickel-base alloys.
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Materials & Raw Stock
Hard Times
Distributor specializes in helping customers cut hard-to-machine materials.
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Enhanced Performance
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Heated Exchange
An expert on heat treating write about the advantages and disadvantages of available approaches and systems: stainless steel foil, atmospherically controlled furnaces, pressure-quench vacuum furnaces and two-zone vacuum furnaces. There's also a sidebar on cryogenic treatment of metals.
Sizing Up Nickel
Due to the exceptional strength of IN 100, INCO 718 and other nickel-based alloys, they're difficult to machine. The author, who spent 40 years endmilling these aerospace materials, discusses their unique characteristics and methods for successfully machining them.
Sparkling Performance
Author discusses the advantages of CVD-diamond tools compared to other types of diamond tools. He also explains how CVD-diamond tools are manufactured and gives case histories involving their usage.