Videos

Mike Hill, vice president of sales and marketing for PRAB, Kalamazoo, Mich., discussed effective chip and fluid management issues during his Fast Track Seminar, hosted at the Cutting Tool Engineering booth during IMTS.

Posted with CTE's October cover story are a few video reports—one on parts for legacy military aircraft (above), and two others on the KC-135 Stratotanker.

Watch the 13th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series as host Dr. Jeffrey Badger fields a question from a shop seeking a recommendation for a wheel that can eliminate burr.

Watch a video presentation from Seco Tools LLC about the tools and techniques suggested for machining powdered metallurgy. The company reports that inserts with Seco Tool's Duratomic CVD aluminum-oxide coating can work well for P/M components. The Duratomic technology promotes growth of coating crystals in certain crystallographic directions to improve coating properties.

Matt Tegelman, application manager and product manager with BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, Hoffman Estates, Ill., provides an overview of the products featured at the company's IMTS 2010 booth.

Mike Hill, vice president of sales and marketing for PRAB, Kalamazoo, Mich., provides an overview of the briquetting operation featured at the PRAB booth during IMTS 2010.

Using the TriboMAM compact CNC lathe attachment, M4 Sciences President Jeffrey A. Bougher and Tsugami Rem SalesApplications Engineer Bob Budnovitch demonstrate the production of a stainless steel bone screw at the Tsugami booth during IMTS 2010.

Robert Auer, an engineer and key account manager with Zoller, took a few minutes during IMTS 2010 to walk through the company's tool life monitoring and management system.

Allied representatives Heather Kaiser, Jim Porter and Brad Gray offer a brief look at the company's newest product lines as well as a quick product demonstration at their IMTS 2010 booth.

Watch the 12th episode of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series as host Dr. Jeffrey Badger helps a shop decide if it's a bad idea to gauge whether it gets burn by looking for burn marks on the part.

A grinding shop trying to grind a 0.006" radius into a hardened steel part with a 60-grit, vitrified-bond, aluminum-oxide wheel was having trouble with burn and huge chatter. Dr. Jeffrey Badger, the host of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine's Grinding Doc Video Series, explains how to handle the situation in the 11th episode of the video series.

Flowdrill Inc. provides a video demonstration of its thermal drilling process. The company produces tungsten-carbide bits and roll-form taps to thermal drill and then thread holes in malleable materials.