Tooling
Air-Actuated Back-Spotfacing is Now an Option
A coolant-actuated, back-spotfacing tool design is now available in an air-actuated version for machines that don’t offer through-tool coolant delivery or parts that can’t be machined using coolant.
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Five-Axis Fixturing Fun
This shop creates intricate fixtures — some of which it has given interesting names — for very complex jobs and high-volume work on five-axis machining equipment.
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EWA Fine Boring Head for Fully Automatic Closed-Loop Operations
IMTS 2022: Big Kaiser’s EWA Automatic Fine Boring System is said to perform closed-loop boring operations without a human operator, eliminating the need to stop the spindle to manually adjust the boring tool and resulting in reduced cost, improved accuracy and minimized scrap.
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Allied Insert for Cutting Stainless Steel, HRSA Materials
Allied Machine and Engineering’s M geometry T-A Pro insert has been engineered to provide a combination of longer tool life, good penetration rates and process reliability for cutting stainless and heat-resistant super alloy materials.
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Widia Chipbreaker for Machining Aluminum, Nonferrous Materials
The insert is designed to be versatile, reliable, and cost-effective, making it a universal solution for customers seeking lower cutting forces, extended tool life and greater tooling productivity when machining a variety of nonferrous workpiece materials.
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Precision Machining Technology Review September 2022: Cutting Tools
Production Machining showcases some of the latest cutting tools, including technology from Heule Precision Tools, Horn, Ceratizit, Ingersoll Cutting Tools, Schwanog and Walter.
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Boring Series Features Modular Components for Flexible Cutting
Walter says its Precision Boring XT tools yield high surface finishes and are up to three times more reliable and flexible than comparable models.
Read MoreHeule Precision Tools Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Booth visitors enjoy giveaways, meeting company owners from Switzerland and more.
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Get an Inside Peek at 3D Printed Tooling
Booth features 3D-printed milling cutter, both a complete tool and a partial tool, to show internal cooling channels and other complex features.
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The Promise of Monitoring Live-Tooling Performance
Sensor technology on live-tooling units could not only prove valuable for predictive maintenance but also overall production monitoring and improvement for a range of machine tool brands.
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