Product category:
Milling cutters
News Release from: P and M Regrinds | Subject: Sano Tools' Vision hard milling cutters
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 August 2007
Carbide end mills have stronger cutting
edges
Carbide end mill cutters that feature AlTiN coated with a cam relief cutting edge increases the strength of the tools' cutting edges.
P and M Regrinds, based in High Wycombe, UK, are now stocking Sano Tools' Vision hard milling cutters These carbide tools are AlTiN coated with a cam relief cutting edge
An eccentric relief increases the strength of an end mill's cutting edges.
With eccentric relief, the tool does not have to be honed, thus it retains coatings and exhibits an even stronger cutting edge.
An alternative to TiN/TiCN is TiAlN and AlTiN coatings.
Both TiAlN and AlTiN have a higher hardness, which gives them an advantage for resisting abrasive wear.
TiAlN and AlTiN coatings have different percentages of titanium and aluminium in their chemical compositions.
AlTiN has a higher hardness than TiAlN (3,200 HV versus 3,400 HV), so it provides better absorption resistance, but the better ductility of TiAlN may work better in forming some materials.
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