Many New Uses For Cutting Tools, Used With Welding And Sheet Metal

Online, November 4, 2010 (Newswire.com) - There are many types of metal cutting tools, which range from ceramics to high carbon steel and diamonds in today's metalworking industry. Different tool manufacturers assign several names and numbers to their products. Although most of these names and numbers could appear similar, the uses of these tool materials could be entirely different. In many cases, the tool manufacturers provide tools for every application.

When choosing metal cutting tools, it does not mean that the most expensive tool is the best. Metal cutting tools must have the following attributes to be able to produce good quality and economical parts:

1. Hardness
2. Toughness
3. Wear Resistance

The main parts of metal cutting tools are the working part that could consist of gauging and cutting parts and the mounting part. The cutting portion is the part that penetrates directly to the metal of the blank and cuts away a part of it. The gaging part is the restoration of the cutting part during the final shaping and sharpening of the surface being machined. The mounting part is used to set the tool in the machine in a determined position or for manual tool holding.

The performance of metal cutting tools will depend on the depth of the cutting, feed rate and cutting speed. The wear resistance of metal cutting tools is determined by the actual cutting between sharpening. The main requirement for a metal cutting tool is high output for a certain degree of milling precision and surface roughness and is satisfied by fulfilling the conditions with respect to manufacturing deviations from geometric parameters, tolerances, hardness of the cutting elements and the external appearance.

The design of the new kinds of metal cutting tools, the tendency is toward improvement of their geometric parameters and the structural elements and the use of materials with better cutting properties. The solution to these led to the metal cutting tools increased stability such as dimensional stability and improved breaking of chips, most especially for automatic lathes and lines with programmed control. The development of new kinds of lathes and the adoption of modern electrophysical and electrochemical methods of processing hard-alloy tools are related closely to problems of metal cutting tool production.

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