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Drill is diamond-coated to machine composites
LMT Fette has introduced a diamond coated parabolic drill to overcome delaminating, flaking, splintering and whiskering, when drilling machine carbon fibre and carbon graphite materials.
News from LMT Fette (15 May 2008)
Indexable insert drills make large holes
The AMEC Revolution Drill and AMEC Core Drill are adjustable indexable carbide drills, for machining large diameter holes with excellent productivity at a competitive cost per hole.
News from Allied Maxcut Engineering Co ( 1 May 2008)
Maxcut drills remove metal at high rates
Allied Maxcut's Revolution drill and Core Drill provide high metal removal rates and users can alter the drills' cutting diameters for holes up to 143mm diameter.
News from Allied Maxcut Engineering Co (14 April 2008)
Sandvik tools drill 'super alloys' reliably
For the drilling of aerospace heat resistant 'super alloys', Sandvik Coromant has introduced a drill, which is claimed to give maximum efficiency in repeated short hole drilling.
News from Sandvik Coromant UK (11 April 2008)
Mikron improves drilling in hardened steels
The drilling of hardened materials is a real challenge for mould and die makers, said Mikron Tool, but a range of drills guarantee hole accuracy and process reliability.
News from Mikron Tool SA Agno ( 7 April 2008)
Short-hole drill range extended
Claimed to drill better quality holes twice as fast, and at half the cost, a range of indexable insert short-hole drills range has been extended to cover 12mm to 63mm diameter.
News from Sandvik Coromant UK ( 5 March 2008)
Special drills service includes technical support
Company supplies special drills to order and recommends th best drill material for an application supported by the use of advanced 3D simulation software.
News from Sano Tools/Chiltern Tooling (28 February 2008)
Drills perform semi-dry hole-making
The trend towards environmental awareness and employee welfare has led to the development of semi-dry hole-making using minimum quantity lubrication.
News from TaeguTec UK (14 February 2008)
Customized tooling made for fine machining
Extending its manufacturing facility at Ruebig/Nabburg, Germany, as the competence centre for fine machining, Kennametal now offers precision reaming tools and tools for fine-boring operations.
News from Kennametal UK ( 4 February 2008)
Solid carbide drills' heads are replaceable
Numerous new and innovative cutting tools to be displayed at MACH 2008 include solid carbide drilling with the versatility of a replaceable head system. Brochure available
News from WNT (UK) ( 9 January 2008)
Deep hole drilling at high penetration rates
Carbide drills for drilling holes up to 30 x diameter have a 'wave' type cutting edge for improved penetration and a decrease in tooling load.
News from Mitsubishi Carbide ( 1 January 2008)
Specialised drills save machining costs
Six drilling developments shown by Kennametal at EMO 2007, included hole making in SS and carbon-fibre reinforced polymers, deep-hole drilling and a modular drilling system, reports Mike Page.
News from Mike Page - editor's feature articles (30 November 2007)
Inserts supplier change betters deep-hole drilling
User application article A deep-hole drilling head is machining holes to size consistently while the need to change inserts has fallen dramatically since switching to different inserts.
News from TaeguTec UK (29 November 2007)
Tooling update raised machined track parts output
User application article In the CNC machining railroad switch components a tool allowed the drilling of holes to size without additional finishing operations, while a ripper cutter improved surface finishes.
News from TaeguTec UK (23 November 2007)
Reamer developments provide high quality finishes
Expandable reamers having replaceable heads with fixed blades and tangential reamers with guide pads were claimed at EMO 2007 to provide very high quality machining results.
News from Mapal (19 November 2007)
Modular boring system covers wide diameter range
A modular multi-head boring system has a number of boring bars/bridges to achieve a required diameter using fine adjustment from a single spindle head. Brochure available
News from WNT (UK) ( 1 November 2007)
Solid carbide twist drills cut to 40xD depth
Solid carbide deep hole twist drills cut holes up to 40D depth in steels and cast alloys and ensures safe chip clearance at maximum feds and speeds.
News from Mapal (31 October 2007)
Tool adds extra NC axis for contour boring
Electronically guided boring tool system adds an extra NC axis on machine tools for jobs such as contour turning on joint bearings and valve seats or machining grooves in valve housings.
News from Mapal (29 October 2007)
Tap drills cut high Si aluminium
Tap drills have PCD blanks over the whole tapping length to increase tool life when machining high silicon content aluminium, for example as used in automotive crank cases.
News from Mapal (15 October 2007)
Deep hole solid carbide drills penetrate faster
When compared with gun or HSS drills, deep hole solid carbide drills increase penetration rates by 100% when producing holes up to 30xdiameter in steel and iron.
News from Kennametal UK (27 September 2007)
Boring tools adjusted remotely by radio link
A flexible, multi-point, remotely adjustable boring system uses a remote radio link to make micron adjustment of multiple cutting edges in a boring tool and can be seen at EMO 2007.
News from Rigibore (22 August 2007)
Insert drills offer holemaking flexibility
When machining a hole, a carbide insert drill offers flexibility for drilling diifferent materials and can be quickly changed as tool wear increases, reports Mike Page.
News from Mike Page - editor's feature articles ( 9 August 2007)
Drilling - why use up too much time?
According to a leading cutting tool supplier, some 36% of machining hours in Europe are spent in making holes, maybe not all shops are aware of the benefits of carbide tooling, writes Mike Page.
News from Mike Page - editor's feature articles ( 3 August 2007)
Dual carbide drill reduces holemaking costs
Technical background article Inside 'dual carbide' carbide drills is a core of breakage resistant micrograin carbide, which enables users to double cutting speeds, halve the costs of holemaking and quadruple tool life. Brochure available
News from Stellram ( 2 August 2007)
Micro tools machine highly accurate small bores
Single-ended micro tools machine highly accurate small bores down to 1.7mm diameter and perform threading and gooving using high wear resistant coated inserts.
News from Vargus Tooling UK (23 July 2007)
Drills designed for small holes and batch jobs
Swiss cutting tool manufacturer will be showing a very adaptable small hole drill range and a drills designed for carying out for machining small and medium batch quantities.
News from Mikron Tool SA Agno (23 July 2007)
Boring tool settings changed quickly, remotely
Boring tool system offers machine tool operators the means of making fast and easy micron adjustments at the tool's cutting edge, with minimal interruption to a machining cycle.
News from Rigibore (18 July 2007)
Modular carbide tools drill austenitic SS better
Modular carbide insert drills feature a revised cutting geometry for imroving the drilling of austenitic stainless steels, maximising process safety and reducing noise.
News from Kennametal UK (27 June 2007)
Drills produce 30x diameter deep holes
By introducing a 30x diameter drill range a company has eliminated the need for dedicated deep-hole drilling machine tools and the need for using specialist sub-contractors. Brochure available
News from WNT (UK) (19 June 2007)
Selector simplifies drills selection
To assist users in the selection of high performance drills, Allied Maxcut has designed a product selector that covers 90% of drilling applications and can be easily used in any desktop or laptop PC.
News from Allied Maxcut Engineering Co (17 May 2007)
Drills' hydrostatic support clears chips
To clear swarf reliably during drilling, these drills have four coolant channels hat exit axially on the end face of the drill and also improves concentricity.
News from Perschmann (11 May 2007)
Cutting edge tool adjustment with boring system
Smartbore provides easy read-off checks with the hand-held adjuster or a separate mobile reader and offers fine adjustment to within 1 micron with minimal machining interruptions.
News from Rigibore ( 7 May 2007)
Solid carbide reamers improve hole quality
Sub-micron solid carbide reamers are designed to produce holes in common steels, stainless steels and hard metals to high levels of geometric accuracy and surface finish. Brochure available
News from WNT (UK) (27 April 2007)
Insert cutters rapidly chamfer small bores
Cutters having have square, indexable, carbide inserts are made for high precision chamfering of small bores, giving good surface finish using high feed rates of up to 0.4mm/rev. Brochure available
News from NCMT (19 April 2007)
Drill deep holes without 'pecking' the feeds
A solid carbide twist drill offers productivity gains of up to six times higher than conventional deep hole drills in steel and cast irons, non-ferrous materials, stainless steel and titanium alloys.
News from Walter GB (11 April 2007)
Precision boring heads have digital display
Precision boring heads feature a high resolution digital display that allows micron level adjustments to be made and eliminate any potential errors that may be caused by backlash. Brochure available
News from WNT (UK) ( 4 April 2007)
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