Drilling Tools
Drilling tools are end-cutting tools designed for producing holes in a workpiece. The shank of a drilling tool incorporates flutes, or grooves, that allow for the entrance of fluids, along with ejecting the cut ships from the workpiece. Drilling tools vary widely, to accommodate the properties of the workpiece along with the radius and depth of hole desired. Some subcategories of drilling tools include twist drills, straight flute drills, crankshaft drills, extension drills, step drills, oil hole drills, three- and four-fluted drills, and combination drill-and-countersink.
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Handle the toughest applications and cut down on the number of changes thanks to advances in tool life.
Handle the toughest applications and cut down on the number of changes thanks to advances in tool life.
Improvements to handheld tools and drills allow fabricators to work with more powerful and safer products to get the job done.
Considering where a standard item’s functionality ends, there are endless possibilities. Yet even when budgets, and in some cases physics, get in the way, the only true limit is one’s imagination.
Digital tools are already here in the form of DROs and one-way communications to mobile devices, but that’s only the beginning. Get ready for some exciting breakthroughs in automation that promise higher productivity, increased safety, greater throughput and less scrap.
Bent Engineering successfully threaded 60 holes in shale gas blocks made of 17-4PH 900H stainless steel. How did they do it?
Walter’s new copy turning system for internal machining boosts tool life, cuts tooling costs, and can increase indexing accuracy by 50%.
Tool manufacturer Sandvik Coromant highlights the advantages to the automotive industry of special milling cutter designs that offer precise, trouble-free, and burr-free milling. Read about the key features of the M5 cutter series and its step technology. Learn how arranging the PCD inserts in a spiral and staggered vertically position, to remove material from the workpiece both axially and radially and how the last tooth offers a wiper geometry achieves a high-quality, flat surface.
Walter introduces the PVD drilling WNN15 grade for indexable insert drills; it can be used for wrought and cast aluminum alloys.
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