At Valor Holemaking, we know that drilling stainless steel and titanium isn’t just difficult, it’s one of the most demanding challenges manufacturers face. These materials are unforgiving, known for their toughness, low thermal conductivity, and tendency to work harden, which often result in significantly reduced tool life. Before releasing Valor Holemaking’s High Performance Drills for […]
Harvey Performance Company’s Don Grandt Employs a Novel “Heavy Radial Efficiency Milling” or “HREM” Technique to Boost Tool Life and Minimize Heat Generation in Titanium For all the characteristics that make Titanium ideal for extreme conditions, such as its high strength, low density, and corrosion resistant properties, it also makes it very difficult to machine. […]
Mold, Tool, and Die manufacturing demands a high level of precision. Whether you’re machining hardened tool steels, creating detailed mold cavities, or producing dies with complex geometries, the tooling used plays a critical role in ensuring consistent, repeatable results. To explore the full selection of tools relevant to this industry, including application-specific geometries and coatings, […]
Check out the unique geometry of Helical’s End Mills for Hardened Steels. Featuring variable pitch geometry, a massive core diameter, and premium Tplus coating, Helical’s End Mills for Hardended Steels have been meticulously tested to provide outstanding performance in hardened steels over 60 HRC with extensive testing in 62 HRC D2 tool steel. Click Here […]
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Have you ever broken a miniature tool? The “Cutting Tool Counselor,” Don Grandt is here to help! Miniature cutting tools, such as end mills, drills, and reamers, don’t run the same as a large standard end mills and adjustments must be made to run them optimally and to avoid tool failure. In this episode of […]
Watch this great video from @go.manufacturing shared to @helicaltools Instagram, which features Helical’s 3 Flute 45° Helix Square End Mill for Aluminum in action. “Sit back and enjoy the raw sights and sounds of a @helicaltools 1/4” endmill taking a .050” stepover cut through .900” of aluminum at 100 ipm. ✌️” Designed for outstanding performance and […]
Watch this video of CoreHog’s Medium Finishing Core Tools shear through Nomex® with ease! Optimized for shaping and finishing smaller complex surfaces, bevels, and external radii of honeycomb core materials, this “assembly style” CNC tooling is comprised of different CoreHoggers and Coreslicers, each engineered for specific material densities to provide a customized machining experience. Click […]
Have you ever snapped a hand tap? Let the Cutting Tool Counselor help! There are 3 main types of hand taps that all have different taper angles. How and when you use them will greatly determine the success of your hand tapping application. Check out this episode of In the Loupe TV to learn about […]
Selecting the proper drill for a specific application is essential to ensuring a successful cnc drilling job. Achieving a perfectly machined hole can often be challenging. There are many machining woes that can occur when drilling into a material. These can greatly affect hole quality, and regardless of the material being machined, there is often […]