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Tungaloy-NTK PCD Grade Offers Optimal Dimensional Accuracy
The DX200 is an effective tool for machining application-specific components that demand high levels of material purity, such as metal medical implants and sputtering targets for semiconductor applications.
Tungaloy Threading Inserts for Improved Chipping Resistance
The inserts provide threading applications with long, predictable tool life, while keeping machining costs down, in not only steel and stainless steel but also difficult heat-resistant superalloys.
Drill Head Cutting Tool System Offers Expanded Offerings
PMTS 2023: This exchangeable head drill system is said to offer both the efficiency of solid carbide drills and the productivity of indexable drills.
Tungaloy Barrel-Style Cutting Tool Inserts for Finishing, Semifinishing
The BallFinishNose indexable barrel-style tool inserts feature an asymmetric shape, which enables users to use the same side of the insert always facing the same direction when set in the tool body.
Tungaloy CBN Inserts for Threading Hardened Parts
The inserts both feature a brazed CBN tip which is designed to provide a cutting edge with a balanced combination of wear and fracture resistance for withstanding continuous and heavy cutting loads.
Tungaloy’s PCD Turning Inserts for Improved Chip Control
The inserts feature an all-purpose NS chipbreaker for nonferrous applications.
Tungaloy MiniForce-Turn CBN Inserts for Hard Turning
The series offers double-sided turning inserts with positive rake cutting edges on both sides.
Tungaloy Toolholders Feature Streamlined Coolant Nozzle Design
The company says the TungTurn-Jet can use high-pressure coolant of 1,015 psi to effectively control chips in long-chipping materials such as stainless steel and heat-resistant superalloys.
BoreMeister Boring Tool System Adds Anti-Vibration Bars, Reducer Sleeves
BoreMeister expands its application range with additional PSC toolholders and reducer sleeves.
PMTS 2021 Product Preview: Cutting Tools and Toolholders
Production Machining highlights some of the upcoming cutting tool and toolholder products to be unveiled at PMTS 2021.
Tungaloy Adds Grades, Geometries to Grooving, Parting Off Tools
Multifunctional grooving and parting-off line offers a wide range of insert and toolholder variations designed to provide maximum precision and longer tool life.
Precision Machining Technology Review: Cutting Tool Technology
Production Machining showcases some of the latest cutting tool technology from Horn, Heimatec, Big Kaiser, Tungaloy and Inovatools.
Tungaloy HPC SpinJet High-Speed Spindle Driven by Coolant
High-Speed spindle line utilizes a CNC machine’s existing through-spindle coolant supply as a pressurized power source, eliminating the cost and need of external air or electric power supplies
Tungaloy’s Coolant-Through Holders Well-Suited for Small-Bore Internal Grooving
These holders accommodate a variety of diameters, while providing reliable chip evacuation.
Tungaloy Expands Tung-AluMill Line of Indexable Shoulder Milling Cutters
Tungaloy has expanded its Tung-AluMill line of indexable shoulder milling cutters to include an insert with a 2.5-mm (0.1") nose radii.
Tungaloy Adds Threading Inserts and Holders for Swiss Lathe Users
These 11 ER threading inserts and two square shank holders are specifically designed with users of Swiss-type automatic lathes in mind.
Tungaloy's ETTL Insert Improves Efficiency for Parallel Thread Milling
Thread milling provides a high level of security thanks to the light cutting load generated when the tool breaks the chip in smaller pieces, preventing the chip from being jammed, which typically occurs during tapping.
Tungaloy Expands ISO-EcoTurn Insert Geometries
Tungaloy further expands its ISO-EcoTurn line of economical turning inserts to include new geometries and nose radius size for precision finishing of steel.
Tungaloy's Full Profile Threading Inserts with 4 Cutting Edges
The full profile threading insert can be mounted on the existing standard TetraMini-Cut toolholder for 60° V-profile or grooving inserts.
Tungaloy Collet Chuck Sleeve Strengthens ID Turning Capability for Small Diameters
TinyMini-Turn is a boring tool system consisting of solid carbide boring bars and sleeves, designed for high precision internal boring, grooving and threading applications in small diameters as small as 0.6 mm (0.024").
Tool Improves Efficiency for Cutting 4140 Steel
Switching from a cutting tool insert that produced 24 parts per cutting edge to one that produces 40 parts per cutting edge saved a shop time and money.
Tungaloy’s -01 Geometry for Precision Finish Turning on Swiss Lathes
The -01 geometry is designed to deliver consistent chip control at light cutting depths of 0.5-mm (0.020") or smaller.
TungMeister Interchangeable Milling Head System
The interchangeable four-flute cutter heads are designed to allow a quick, easy and accurate tool change between various operations.
Tungaloy's Inserts for Higher Turning Efficiency of Ferrous Metals
BX480 is a high cBN content T-CBN grade and has a well-sintered cubic boron nitride grain structure with a good balance of wear and fracture resistance.
Tungaloy Broadens its OD Toolholder Length Variations
Tungaloy is expanding its Turning-A series of OD turning holders to include short length holders.
PVD-Coated Grade AH8015 Boosts Productivity for ISO S Materials
Tungaloy adds PVD-coated grade AH8015 in several geometry types to its MiniForce-Turn series for machining heat-resistant superalloys, steel and stainless steel.
BXA20 T-CBN Inserts Enhance Solutions for Hard Turning
Tungaloy adds a number of new geometries and shapes to its BXA20 line, a grade of coated T-CBN inserts, designed for efficiency for hard turning operations.
Tungaloy's T9255 Insert Grade Enhances Turning Performance
Tungaloy’s T9225 insert grade complements the T9200 CVD grade series for steel turning.
Coupling Sizes Added to TungCap Quick-Change Tooling
Tungaloy is expanding its TungCap PSC quick-change tooling system that promises higher productivity in a variety of CNC lathe machining.
WavyJoint CBN Inserts Enable Hard Turning
Tungaloy’s WavyJoint CBN inserts are a CBN brazing technology for high productivity in hard turning operations that are designed to improve machining efficiency.
TungQuad Chamfer Cutter Offers Versatility
Tungaloy Corp.’s TungQuad chamfer cutter series uses compact inserts in a positive, single-sided, square shape that can front-chamfer holes.
Expanded TFE Face Mill Series Eliminates Axial Runout
Tungaloy has expanded its TFE series face milling cutters for finishing applications to incorporate bodies with insert adjustable pockets that eliminate axial runout of the inserts.
Grade AH8015 Inserts are Intended for Large Stock Removal
Tungaloy Corp.’s grade AH8015 inserts have a double-sided insert geometry that is said to bring benefits in tool economy and productivity.
DoTriple-Mill Face Mill Series Includes M-Class Inserts
Tungaloy Corp.’s DoTriple-Mill face mill series includes pressed-to-size inserts in Class-M dimensional tolerance that are fixed to the cutter by a dovetail clamping mechanism.
Seminar will Showcase Machining High Temperature Materials
Toyoda Americas and Tungaloy will host Accelerated Machining of Precipitation Hardened Stainless Steel, a lunch learning seminar looking at and demonstrating machining high temperature materials, such as 15-5 stainless steel, on Thursday, Feb. 22.
ISO-EcoTurn Series Includes VNMG Inserts and Holders
Tungaloy’s ISO-EcoTurn turning insert and holder system series includes VNMG inserts and holders that offer holders for OD and ID turnings, as well as holders with TungCap connectors.
Inserted Indexable Gundrill Line Does High Feed Drilling
Tungaloy Corp.’s DeepTriDrill inserted indexable gundrill line has options down to a diameter range of 14-15.9 mm, as deep hole drilling is a challenging operation and often creates a bottleneck in holemaking shops.