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Strong Spindle Connections: The Key to Machining Titanium
Manufacturers have several spindle interface choices when making a machine tool investment. Keith Wiggins of Kennametal explains why choosing wisely to achieve and maximize cutting-edge performance is a must on materials such as titanium that are tough to machine and require considerably higher cutting forces.
Drills for High Tolerance Hole Making in Composite Materials
Each carbon fiber material has its own demands that increase the risk for delamination or splintering. However, new Corodrill452 drills and a countersink tool with a microstop for chamfering from Sandvik Coromant use reamer geometries that are ideal for rivet and bolt holes in carbon reinforced plastics and metallic stack materials because they reduce this risk, ensuring the stringent hole tolerances are met with exceptional finish and quality.
5-Flute Tools Designed for Titanium and Stainless Steel
Using advanced geometries and specialized coatings for maximum cutting efficiency and precision, enDURO end mills from IMCO Carbide Tool are ideal for tackling hard-to-machine metals, including superalloys, titanium and stainless steel.
Grip Force Repeatability in Lathes
Kyle Zellman of SMW-Autoblok examines how clamp force repeatability affects process capability, deformation problems, released part safety and damage, and can be a solution to reducing your downtime and maintenance costs.
Brush Research Launches Updated Company Website
Visitors can learn more about finding solutions to their cleaning, finishing, deburring, and edge blending problems with industrial brushes and honing tools at this new interactive website.
Former Racer Builds a Shop that Goes Faster
Todd Cuffaro is a former driver of race cars and now, as president of Miller Machine Works, he is driving his company to finish first in a number of areas, mainly performance on complex parts, quality, turnaround time, and sales.
How to Increase the Production of Heat Exchangers
Without heat exchangers, all process and thermal powergen plants would grind to a standstill. To meet demand, a new milling cutter from Ingersoll Cutting Tools has debottlenecked one of the most time consuming and repetitive operations in shell-and-tube heat exchanger fabrication and reduced tube sheet grooving down to one third the time so that finished units can ship days or even weeks sooner.
Sandvik Coromant Opens New CA Productivity Center
This new facility has an opportunity to reach a huge customer base in the southwest region with better support and training through with live demonstrations, seminars and advanced theory-based training courses.
OPEN MIND Dealer in Ontario Adds New Leader
Marty Cornacchi joined CAM Focus as the vice president of operations and now leads a team with veteran sales resources, skilled machinists and hyperMILL users that provide 2.5-axis through 5-axis and mill-turn applications solutions.
New President at Walter Group
Metalworking industry veteran Mirko Merlo succeeds Andreas Evertz, who is now the president of the Sandvik Machining Solutions Division.
S-Pads Replace Collets in Multi-Spindle Shops
S-pads from Hardinge are much faster to change than collets from job-to-job and can be shared between many brands of machines, whether the master collet is mounted directly in a machine spindle (single or multiple), in a collet adaptation chuck, or in a collet block.
METALWORKING CATALOG HAS THOUSANDS OF NEW PRODUCTS
The V80 Metalworking catalog from MSC Industrial Direct is the most comprehensive inventory of cutting tools and metalworking products of its kind in the entire industry.
