Iscar Metals Inc. in early March presented a series of milling and drilling demonstrations during the company's 2020 Milling & Holemaking Seminar at its Tech Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Leading the seminar for Iscar were Craig Ewing, national product specialist for drilling, and Bryan Stusak, national product manager for milling. The two-day event focused on the impact cutting tools can have on higher profitability. Or, in Iscar shorthand, Profit LOGIQ.

Ewing and Stusak covered a wide range of tools for facing, shouldering, slotting, feed milling, profiling, plunging, reaming, tapping and boring. For the machining action, the program moved to the Tech Center shop floor where Iscar Tech Center Machinist Eric Dennis ran a series of cuts to demonstrate the maximum DOC as well as step over for each tool used.

In part one of CTE's coverage (displayed above), Iscar runs nearly 30 different cuts in a block of 4140 alloyed steel using a range of tools and tool lines:

• Heli12Feed upfeed line
• Heli3Mill HM390 line
• Logiq8Tang T890 milling line
• HeliTang T490 line
• Tor6Mill profiling line
• Multi-Master indexable heads
• Logiq4Feed high feed milling
• T-Face facemill
• TangFin finish milling
• NanMill nano endmill
• SumoCham
• Heli4Mill HM490 line
• ChatterFree solid mill line
• NanFeed nano feed mill
• Micro3Feed MF 300 endmill

In part two of CTE's coverage (coming soon), Iscar used the following tools and tool lines to demonstrate holemaking, again in a block of 4140 alloyed steel:

• Heli12Feed upfeed line
• SumoCham
• DR-Twist indexable drill line
• CombiCham
• BayoT-Ream
• Logiq3Cham three-flute chamdrill
• Multi-Master indexable heads
• ChatterFree solid mill line
• TriDeep deep drilling

For more information about Iscar's milling and drilling technology, email [email protected].