TOOLING

Directed high-pressure coolant diagram
Cutting Tools

Chip Control With Coolant

Directing high pressure coolant under the chip in turning applications can improve cutting rates, tool life and surface finish.
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LNS Bar Feeder
Bar Feeders

Drafting New Players For Swiss Precision

Consistent operations play a big part in attaining high productivity. That’s why, as a shop grows (as this Swiss shop has), it should look to add machines—and employees—that complement each other.

Modular tool system
Cutting Tools

Use Only The Carbide Needed

The cost of APT, a key ingredient in tungsten carbide cutting tools, has skyrocketed. In response to this situation and quick-change demands from its customers, Ingersoll Cutting Tools offers a modular line of solid carbide cutting tips that attach to reusable tool shanks.

T-rail design
Cutting Tools

Improved Indexable Insert Stability

Sandvik Coromant will introduce its iLock at the September EMO exposition in Germany as a way of improving indexable insert stablility when cutting metal.

thread mill
Aerospace

Internal Threading Solution Supports Broken Tibias

To find a cutting tool that would replace time-consuming manual work to fulfill a 4,000-part order, Albert Keller of Keller Engineering sought out cutting tool experts at Emuge Corp.

Standard two-jaw indexing workholders
Transfer Machines

Complete In One Chucking

Compared to barstock, castings, forgings and sawn blanks present a different set of workhandling challenges for production machining. This article looks at how Hydromat Inc. is meeting these challenges on its rotary transfer machines with engineered indexing workholders.

Strut Rod Scew machine floor plan
Workholding

Ingenuity Wins New Business

寻找新的生意,通常所有商店需要的是马nagement with experience in other areas of the industry and a little ingenuity. For more than 50 years, Acro-Feed Industries was solely a designer and builder of automatic bar and shaped bar feeding systems for screw machines, as well as automatic part loaders and unloaders, bar load assists and automatic bundle feeders.

Variety of Headstock Collets
Swiss-Types

Workholding For Swiss Turning

In large part, because of the machine’s versatility, Swiss turning is increasing its penetration of the precision turned parts market. As more shops look to this technology, a look at workholding considerations is in order.

Cutting Tools

Inventory Control Systems For The Shop

An ongoing effort towards more efficient operations drove this shop to take a closer look at indirect material usage, subsequently leading to implementation of a new system for tracking toolroom inventory.
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Reaming system
Automotive

Chip Control Solution Provides Increase In Tool Life

Replacing the traditional ISO-style inserts with a reaming system solved a chip buildup problem in bore finishing of injector bodies.