Tooling

Cutting Tools

Compact Burnishing Tools for Swiss Turning

With a unique design that allows adjustments to be made without removing the tool from the block, these burnishing tools produce exceptional micro-finishes in a variety of workpiece materials.

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Cutting Tools

Three of My Favorite and Most Shared Ideas to Get the Most from Drills in Your Shop

Keep the drill short; get the feed rate right; and replace the drill on schedule before it dulls.

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Cutting Tools

Remote Honing Analytics

Remote honing analytics with MTConnect-compliant machines makes manufacturing activity and system conditions transparent, enabling rapid implementation of operational and maintenance excellence.

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Cutting Tools

Live Demo Video: New Digital Boring Head and App

The EWD EVO digital boring head from Big Kaiser connects with newly developed smartphone and tablet app.

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Cutting Tools

Take This Tool for a Spin

Turbo whirling is a newly developed process from Horn USA that optimizes machining during thread whirling, boosting both productivity and cost-effectiveness.

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Toolholders

Through-Coolant for Swiss Machines

This system allows shops to quickly transform the standard external-coolant live tooling heads on their turning machine turrets into those with through-tool-coolant capability.

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Workholding

New Clamping System Shortens Setup Times

The more quickly a setup can be completed, the sooner a machine tool can begin cutting chips. A new clamping system from GF Machining Solutions provides just that.

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Cutting Tools

Video: Parting Ways

The CoroCut QD system from Sandvik Coromant is designed for cutting depths of 15 to 20 times the insert width in bar diameter on bar-fed turning centers, sliding head lathes and automatic multi-spindle machines.

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Workholding

The Collet is the Answer

A small workholding change helped this shop deliver the required part finish by resolving vibration and runout issues.

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Cutting Tools

Tools and Technologies for Deep Hole Drilling

Understanding the challenges of deep hole drilling and knowing how to select and apply the appropriate tools will help a shop profit from this operation.

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Horn USA
Kyocera SGS
CERATIZIT
Specialized Plastic Packaging for Cutting Tools
Iscar
Ingersoll Cutting Tools
Sumitomo
IMCO
Specialized Plastic Packaging for Cutting Tools