SNKX High-Feed Milling Insert

SNKX High-Feed Milling Insert

Nexus Cutting Tools introduces its SNKX high-feed insert.

September 13, 2013
Cutting Tools & Tooling Milling Cutters Machining Milling

Nexus Cutting Tools introduces its SNKX high-feed insert. Optimized for high-feed milling, the new SNKX geometry is a high-feed square insert. Featuring eight corners with helical geometry, its size and unique design delivers more cutting edges per insert, thus dramatically increasing productivity, according to the company.

The SNKX insert is manufactured with proprietary sub-micro grain carbide and advanced PVD coating technology, which is up to five times thicker than most PVD coatings. This allows for machining of multiple materials and ensuring excellent tool life.

The specific advantages of the new Nexus high-feed milling cutters are high material-removal rates along with eight economical cutting edges. Applications include facemilling, copy milling, plunge milling and roughing operations on pockets and 3-D surfaces.

The new Nexus cutters are available in standard Weldon shank endmills and standard facemills. The new high feed cutters are also available in the patented Power-Loc endmills and the patented Shrink-Mill design for zero runout.

Glossary terms in this article

  • plunge milling
    Highly productive method of metal removal in which an axial machining operation is performed in a single tool sequence. The tool makes a series of overlapping, drill-like plunges t…
  • facemilling
    Form of milling that produces a flat surface generally at right angles to the rotating axis of a cutter having teeth or inserts both on its periphery and on its end face.
  • 3-D
    Way of displaying real-world objects in a natural way by showing depth, height and width. This system uses the X, Y and Z axes.

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