Videos

Videos • July 16, 2020

Vollmer VHybrid 360 for grinding & eroding

Do you want to grind carbide tools and erode PCD tools with high productivity? The new VHybrid 360 from Vollmer of America Corp. combines the strengths of an innovative grinding machine and a proven, powerful erosion machine.

Videos • July 11, 2020

Episode 103: Cylindrical grinding relief

Dr. Jeffrey Badger provides a simple, if not pretty, solution to a nasty cylindrical grinding problem — when the side of a grinding wheel meets a flat surface. Watch the 103rd episode of the Grinding Doc video series.

Videos • June 30, 2020

UNISIG highlights benefits of trepanning

UNISIG, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, demonstrates why trepanning is beneficial when drilling deep holes that are too large for high-pressure coolant drills or gundrills. Utilized in the aerospace, defense, material production, as well as oil and gas industries, trepanning reportedly offers higher productivity in many applications and uses less power than other drilling strategies.

Videos • June 19, 2020

Illuminating aluminum demos

Presented as a video supplement to Cutting Tool Engineering's July 2020 article that addresses the need for part manufacturers to work with toolmakers to learn about the wide range of tool options available today, "Illuminating Aluminum" offers two machining demonstrations from LMT Onsrud LP, Waukegan, Illinois, and RobbJack Corp., Lincoln, California.

Videos • June 15, 2020

Episode 102: Workpiece fatigue

For the 102nd Grinding Doc episode, Dr. Jeffrey Badger covers the impact that thermal softening, residual tensile stresses and rehardening burn have on fatigue life in steel workpieces.

Videos • May 25, 2020

Episode 101: Cup wheel grinding

Jeffrey Badger, Ph.D., takes a detailed look at the impact different grinding approaches have on cup wheel wear in the 101st episode of the Grinding Doc video series.

Videos • May 25, 2020

Keeping steel wheels spinning

This video supplement to Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's June 2020 Productive Times article showcases the solution provided by Güdel Inc. — automated material handling through the use of a double-axis gantry robot with special grippers.

Videos • May 25, 2020

Full-diameter slotting of steel

ProvenCut recipe 551 shows how to achieve a high material removal rate while maintaining a reliable cut using a light-duty machine with a 6.35 mm (0.25") endmill to slot 4140 alloy steel.

Videos • April 30, 2020

Iscar features multiple milling, drilling demos during recent seminar

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.

Videos • April 25, 2020

Presenting an automated coolant delivery system

Precision Tool Technologies Inc., Brainerd, Minnesota, developed the FullShop automated coolant delivery system to eliminate manually monitoring and replenishing coolant so that the shop could enable unattended machining.

Videos • April 20, 2020

Chatter Chat

In the 100th episode of CTE's Grinding Doc video series, Dr. Jeffrey Badger discusses his least favorite subject—chatter.

Videos • March 27, 2020

Machining a hardened ring gear

Using a Tormach 1100 CNC mill, ProvenCut demonstrates Recipe 502, a Fusion 360 adaptive roughing strategy run at 12.2 m/min. (40 sfm) and 0.033 mm/tooth (0.0013 ipt) with a 15.875 mm (0.625") axial DOC (ap) and 0.508 mm (0.02") radial DOC (ae). The demonstration shows a standard four-flute carbide endmill machining 8620 alloy steel hardened to 55 HRC.