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SuperTurnZ Inserts Enable Single-Tool, Multidirectional Turning
These inserts are designed as a highly productive alternative to conventional turning where 80-degree and 35-degree corner inserts are fed in the same direction.
Ingersoll’s TwistSFeed Drills With Multiple Flutes Offer High Productivity
A three-flute quick-change tip with an upgraded clamping mechanism is designed to maximize productivity.
T-Turn FM Chipbreaker Designed for Steel and Stainless Steel
Ingersoll Cutting Tool Co.’s T-Turn FM chipbreaker series is designed especially for steel and stainless steel applications where semi-finish to medium machining is required.
Video: Micro Insert for Live Tooling on Swiss Lathes
This easy-loading 5-mm I.C. micro insert is designed to run at maximum feed rates and is equipped with fine-pitched densities for high-productivity machining.
Shop Improves Turning with Indexable Coated Carbide Inserts
This shop retooled a heavy duty OD turning and facing job for gummy 4130 steel. It tripled the material removal rate and more than doubled tool life after making this change.
Micro-Boring Tool Calms ‘Perfect Storm’ for Medical Parts Fabricator
In one of its first commercial applications, an Ingersoll micro-boring tool has brought process stability to a machining application that the user describes as a “perfect storm.”
2-Start Indexable Carbide Insert Hob
Ingersoll introduces a 2-Start indexable carbide insert hob, which almost doubles productivity for machining gears with large numbers of teeth when compared with single-start ICI hobs.
Cutting Tool R&D Proves Productive
Paying attention to small differences in cutting tool technology makes an impact at this New England Swiss shop.
From Virtual To Reality
This article tells how a shop used infomation available on the Web to solve a tough production problem on its shop floor.
No-Burr Threading Helps Shop Compete
With the switch from a ground top-notch tool to a pressed Ingersoll threading form tool on one high-volume job, Warren Screw Machine eliminated 2 minutes of hand deburring per part. Not incidentally, the company also lopped 20 seconds per part off the threading cycle.
Use Only The Carbide Needed
The cost of APT, a key ingredient in tungsten carbide cutting tools, has skyrocketed. In response to this situation and quick-change demands from its customers, Ingersoll Cutting Tools offers a modular line of solid carbide cutting tips that attach to reusable tool shanks.
Multifunctional Tool Brings Immediate Savings
What would it be worth to a shop to address a problem job in the morning and by afternoon, be running it 40 percent faster? That was exactly BVR Technologies’ (Rockford, Illinois) situation in regards to a standard carrier—a turned part they were machining on a regular basis.