Products

Products • March 23, 2016

Tool Repair vs. Tool Remanufacturing

Traditional manual indexable tool repair methods can place limitations on the feasibility of repairing more than moderate pocket damage. GKI says its process using 4- and 5-axis CNC machines removes the damage completely and replaces it with new metal, resulting in a superior-quality tool while enhancing GKI's ability to repair tooling that other repair houses would likely turn away as "beyond repair."

Products • March 23, 2016

PCD Cutting Tools

West Ohio Tool Co. says its PCD tools have been proven to reduce costs, setup times and changeovers while maintaining the tight tolerances required in today's manufacturing operations. Several of the new cross-center tip drills continue to run in high-silicon aluminum with over 700,000 hits, showing no sign of wear, and the helical diamond-veined endmills have logged in excess of 10,000 linear inches trimming composite materials.

Products • March 23, 2016

Pramet Penta HF High-Feed Cutter

The latest positive axial rake, high-feed cutter from Dormer Pramet allows it to be applied with multiple materials across various applications. The Pramet Penta HF is an aggressive high-feed cutter suitable for machining a variety of materials, including heat-treated and difficult-to-machine steels, stainless steels and heat-resistant superalloys (HRSA).

Products • March 23, 2016

AVIA Family of Lasers

Coherent Inc. has expanded its AVIA family of lasers with new models having green output and which reportedly offer an unmatched combination of power, reliability and compact size for a range of precision materials processing applications. The new AVIA NX products are q-switched, diode-pumped, solid-state lasers that deliver up to 65W of average power at 532 nm from a laser head that measures less than two feet (587 mm) in length.

Products • March 23, 2016

Coolant-Through Thread Mills

Allied Machine & Engineering Corp. offers a complete range of coolant-through thread mills that are ideal for blind-hole applications. Allied's coolant-through threadmills significantly improve chip evacuation when threading blind-holes, according to the company.

Products • March 23, 2016

Unilock 5-Axis Modular Systems

Without the right fixturing, you aren't making the most of your 5-axis investment. BIG KAISER's Unilock 5-axis modular system fits seamlessly onto machine tables.

Products • March 23, 2016

Super Slim 3S Hydraulic Chuck

The smallest clamping range yet from BIG Daishowa is the Super Slim 3S hydraulic chuck is intended for extremely repeatable high-precision microdrilling and microendmilling in the most challenging work envelopes thanks to its slim nose and tapered body.

Products • March 23, 2016

Soft Jaw Blanks

Soft jaw blanks from Dillon Jaws feature a milled surface on the jaw end, opposite to the clamping surface, which serves as an easy-locating feature. This datum serves as a location point for positioning the counter-bored holes and the jaws' serrations resulting in exact dimensional matching of Dillon jaw sets.

Products • March 23, 2016

h6 Reamer Series

With more and more machines utilizing shrink-fit and hydraulic holders, Hannibal Carbide Tool has extended the size range in its existing standard offering and added both right and left spiral to its h6 reamer series. All h6-style reamers now go up to 1" diameter.

Products • March 22, 2016

Machinery’s Handbook, 30th Edition

Machinery's Handbook from Industrial Press Inc.. is an authoritative, comprehensive and practical tool, providing its users with fundamental and essential aspects of manufacturing practices. It is a must-have reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist, according to the publisher.

Products • March 22, 2016

ReamTec EasyZERO Runout Compensation Nuts

ReamTec easyZERO runout compensation nuts quickly correct runout errors and misalignment for all round tools using ER collets. Easy-to-use, innovative replacement nuts feature six adjustment screws that allow for up to 0.011" runout to be dialed in easily, allowing for more accurate machining, tighter tolerances and better surface finishes—especially on difficult parts.

Products • March 22, 2016

Carbide Microscale Endmills

Manufactured at its facility in Cleveland, Melin Tool launches a wide range of styles and sizes of carbide microscale endmills that target applications found in mold shops, medical component and instrument manufacturers, and EDM departments. With cutting diameters from 0.005" and lengths up to 30 diameters deep, Melin reports outstanding performance in titanium and aluminum alloys, graphite and steels and stainless alloys less than 40 HRC.