Product category:
Turning tools
News Release from: Mitsubishi Carbide | Subject: NX3035 inserts
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 November 2007
Cermet turning inserts stability
improved
A large range of over 300 inserts, with negative and positive geometries and selection of chip breakers, offer better cutting edge stability even when using coolant.
Mitsubishi Carbide has introduced its latest cermet inserts for steel turning, which provide cutting edge stability even when using coolant Mitsubishi said it was a problem that 'conventional' cermet grades had an unpredictable tool life
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The cermet products are offered in a large range of over 300 inserts.
Users can choose between negative and positive geometries and a varied range of chip breakers.
* Cermets - Cermet is a composite material made of hard particles such as titanium carbo-nitride (TiCN) based ceramics and a metal binder such as Ni.
The NX3035 inserts have a special alloy binder that offers even higher thermal conductivity and bonding strength, said Mitsubishi to manufacturingtalk.com.
The inserts deliver much improved thermal shock resistance.
This characteristic reduces thermal cracking and enables NX3035 to exhibit a high degree of tool life stability even during wet machining, an area where conventional cermet lacks performance.
Tests have shown that thermal shock resistance was doubled compared to other cermet grades, said Mitsubishi.
* High speed finishing - the use of coolant during high speed finishing helps to maintain excellent surface finishes and additionally, dimensional accuracy of components can be maintained for longer due to the stability of the cutting edge.
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