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Workholding 3/7/2024

Job Shop Discovers and Fills a Fishing Need

The promise of a product line for improved mounting of electronic fish finders led this Missouri job shop to an automated turning process.

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Cutting Tools SPONSORED 2/23/2024

Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes

This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.

Cutting Tools 5/3/2024

Sandvik Coromant Inserts Provide Stable Turning of Aerospace Components

The new insert grades GC1205 and GC1210 cover a large application area within last-stage machining and intermediate-stage machining when turning aerospace engine components.

Cutting Tools 5/2/2024

Heule Spot Facing, Counterboring Tool Provides Flexible Machining

The Solo L tooling system for spot facing and counterboring is well suited for a wide range machining applications.

Cutting Tools

Taking a Calculated Approach to Thread Rolling

Thread rolling operations for Swiss-type lathes, multi-spindles and other turning equipment can be enhanced using online calculators to determine optimal process parameters.
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Liberato Pietrantoni Director of Global Sales, CJ Winter

Cutting Tools 4/29/2024

Kyocera Milling Tool Provides Reliable Cutting Performance

The MB45 series is designed to cater to a broad spectrum of machining applications, giving customers a cost-effective solution for a wide range of possibilities.

Cutting Tools 4/26/2024

Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation

MK Tools Rambo Speed Drills are well suited for high-speed applications where efficiency is key, including connecting rods, injection pumps, wheel carriers, guide wheel shafts and more.

Toolholders 4/25/2024

Sowa Shrink-Fit Machine Conserves Toolholder Life

The ShrinkSmart shrink-fit machine’s Smart Coil assesses the distinct resistance of each toolholder to prevent excessive heating.

4/23/2024

Lyndex-Nikken Collets Enable Accurate Small-Diameter Cutting

The MMC Mini-Mini collet chuck is well suited for high-speed machining applications where clearance is needed, such as die mold, aerospace and medical parts.

4/16/2024

Tungaloy CBN Inserts Boost Productivity in Hard Part Turning

The company has upgraded its MiniForceTurn by introducing 30 new DXGQ/U0703 inserts with brazed CBN tips and an HP chipbreaker.

4/15/2024

Sumitomo Turning Grade Provides Long Tool Life in Cast Iron Applications

The AC4125K turning grade is designed to lower overall tool usage and tool-change frequency while providing stable, long tool life in cast iron applications.

Workholding

When to Use a Diaphragm Chuck

The accuracy and repeatability of these chucks make them well suited for a number of workholding applications, including turning and grinding.
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Derek Korn Editor-in-Chief, Production Machining magazine

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Cutting Tools 2/12/2024

Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges

This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.

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Workholding 1/8/2024

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.

Cutting Tools 11/28/2023

New Cutting Tool Technology Discovered at Paul Horn Open House

During a tour of the company’s campus in Tubingen, Germany, I and more than 3,000+ others were introduced to a number of new advances the company has made in cutting tool technology particularly as it relates to the medical industry.

Toolholders

Piezoelectric Sensor Technology: Moving Toward more Efficient Machine Monitoring

A new system that uses simple and compact force or strain sensors, which can be integrated inside toolholders or mounted on surfaces such as spindle housings, can facilitate CNC machine monitoring.
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