TOOLING

Cutting Tools

Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation

MK Tools Rambo Speed Drills are well suited for high-speed applications where efficiency is key, including connecting rods, injection pumps, wheel carriers, guide wheel shafts and more.

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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes

This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.

Cutting Tools

Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges

This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.
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Workholding

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.
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Medical

New Cutting Tool Technology Discovered at Paul Horn Open House

During a tour of the company’s campus in Tubingen, Germany, I and more than 3,000+ others were introduced to a number of new advances the company has made in cutting tool technology particularly as it relates to the medical industry.

Workholding

Video Tech Brief: Bar Feeder Technology Optimized for Swiss-Types

This bar feeder design is said to offer high guidance quality with minimum vibration and noise development for sliding-headstock machines.

Workholding

Dillon's Extruded Aluminum Pie Jaws Maximize Contact Area

Eastec 2023: The company’s full-grip pie jaws are machined from aluminum barstock, meaning they have none of the porosity inherent with castings.

Cutting Tools

IMCO Carbide Tool Inc. End Mills for Faster Part Cycles

The M936 Pow-R-Feed series is designed to make various toolpath moves without slowing down, providing faster cycle times and more production.

Workholding

Dillon's Full-Grip Chuck Jaws Reduce Part Distortion

Dillon full-grip jaws are ideal for high-speed machining, as well as precision boring, tapping, drilling and finishing across most industrial markets.

Swiss-Types

VIDEO: Swiss Shop’s Choice of Collets Facilitates Backworking

This Swiss shop discovered workholding collets that satisfy the needs of its very small, delicate and complex medical parts production on the subspindle, making once impossible processes not only doable but more efficient and esthetically pleasing.