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Machine tools for cutting composite materials have unique requirements 3D Printing Metal and Advanced Composites Diamond in the wheel: Trade Shows & Events Toolholders help shop's reputation Composite Connection: Drilling Performance Tools With Abrasive Personalities

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Endmills for Composites Composite Inspection System iScanMagic Composite 3D Scanner, iScanLite 3D Blue Laser Line Scanner Updates To 800 Series Manual Clamps BALDIA Diamond Coatings Corner Canopy Hoods

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Cellulose-based components mass produced with AP&T press line CGTech announces worldwide reseller agreement AM-produced mandrels provide new market opportunities Composites manufacturing with advanced programming strategies Composite material cutters offer a growing opportunity for toolmakers The next generation of surface profilometer for in-process inspection

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Articles March 15, 2009 Michael Deren

Now is the Time for Opportunity

Machinist's Corner

Articles March 15, 2009 Marlow Knabach

Online U.: 5-Axis Machining

Today's Web-based training programs can get machine operators ready to cut metal r before they ever lay hands on a real tool.

Articles March 15, 2009 K.V. Rangaswamy

Combating Tool Decay

A parts manufacturer finds that brushing the cutting edges of tools with nylon bristles extends tool life, improves part quality and reduces manufacturing costs.

Articles March 15, 2009 Alan Richter

Looking for Something Special: CMM Inspection

Exploring the ins and outs of specifying and ordering a flexible specialty machine tool and having a machine builder produce it.

Articles March 15, 2009 Edmund Isakov, Ph.D.

Tools With Abrasive Personalities

Machining polymetric composite materials with single-layer diamond abrasive tools.

Articles March 15, 2009 Chuck Boelkins

MQL: Lean and Green: Drilling Performance

The benefits of minimumquantitylubrication, which is suitable for many types of machine tools, are numerous.

Articles March 15, 2009 Dr. LaRoux K. Gillespie

Hole in Three: Drilling Performance

Ballizing, lapping with wire and brushing are three simple and economical hole finishing techniques that yield impressive results.

Articles March 15, 2009 Bill Kennedy

Wheels Up: 5-Axis Machining

New materials, the need for lightweight parts and the burgeoning size of some aircraft challenge manufacturers of landing gear components.

Videos March 15, 2009

Landing Gear

Not all landing gear tests require facilities the size of small towns or the ability to land the 787 Dreamliner, which is discussed in the March 2009 cover story of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. As impressive as Boeing's landing gear tests are (visit the Boeing Web site to view a brief overview of Boeing's landing gear technology), CTE Plus takes a look at the other end of the spectrum.