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News Release from: Nikken Kosakusho UK | Subject: Jet Coolant System
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 September 2006
High pressure coolant jets improve
finish
System directs coolant, as a uniform high pressure jet, into the work area ensuring that workpiece and cutting tool tips and edges are kept at stable temperatures during machining operations.
Rotary table and NC tooling specialist - Nikken Kosakusho - is helping aerospace manufacturers improve part accuracies and work piece surface finishes - as well as increasing cutting tool life - with its new Jet Coolant System This System - now adopted by many leading aerospace manufacturers (OEMs, first tier, subcontractors, etc) that include Callender Aeropart, Eaton, BAE Systems, Goodrich, Hampson Aerospace etc enhances the performance of Nikken's highly-popular and successful 30, 40 and 50 taper Milling Chucks and Slim Chucks tool holder systems and is specifically geared to optimising high-performance milling (HPM) and high-speed milling (HSM) operations
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Nikken's Jet Coolant System delivers a number of performance benefits to users.
The system enables coolant to be directed, as a uniform high pressure jet, into the work area ensuring that workpiece and cutting tool tips and edges are kept at stable temperatures during machining operations.
Furthermore, owing to a combination of this high pressure and the system's through-spindle-delivery capability - a 'tornado' effect is created in the cutting zone enabling the highly-effective removal of swarf/chips - again from the work piece and cutter.
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The Jet Coolant System maximises cutting tool life as it lubricates a tool's tip evenly preventing heat build up, hot spots and micro-cracking from occurring.
Owing to the System's swarf removal characteristics problems such as built-up edges being created on a cutting tool's tip are also avoided thereby ensuring higher precision and good surface finish.
For precision manufacturers looking to achieve either highly accurate volumetric removal rates or super fine surface finishes when milling typical aerospace materials - aluminium, titanium, exotics etc - the Jet Coolant System delivers the performance and process reliability required to produce 3D complex, performance critical components.
The Jet Coolant System transforms the performance of Nikken's Milling and Slim Chucks.
For customers with Nikken Milling Chucks - a Nikken CCK collet and front nut are required.
The front nut on the collet is loosened which creates a small gap between contact surfaces of the collet and the nut.
The collet is then inserted with the cutter into the chuck until the collet flange touches the chuck front flange surface.
After the cutter length has been adjusted - the nose ring is tightened until it makes contact with the chuck ground surface.
Finally the front nut is then tightened with the CCKL spanner until the nut flange surface makes contact with the chuck's front flange surface.
For customers with Nikken Slim Chucks - similar fitting operations are performed using a Nikken J Type (SK) Nut and cap.
The Jet Coolant System optimises machining performance and is being used extensively by aerospace component manufacturers for grooving, drilling, reaming, tapping operations etc As well as being widely used in milling operations and applications - the Jet Coolant System can also be integrated onto NC lathes for improved performance during drilling and boring operations.
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