Pike Industries, which currently produces over three million tons of asphalt and processes over six million tons of aggregates, switched from picks with carbide tips to PCD milling tools in 2017. The ...

Whether on Swiss and other turn/mill centers, drilling and tapping machines, or with milling attachments, shops are doing more milling with small spindles than ever before. That’s partly due to the ...

Cutting technology is one of the essential core competencies in the development and production of cold milling machines, given that the optimum interplay of milling drum, toolholder and point-attack ...

Cat05 from Lovejoy Tool Co., Springfield, Vt., guides the selection of milling tools, as well as machining parameters. Products covered include inserts, end mills, face mills, slab mills, PCD/CBN ...

In today’s highly competitive global landscape, manufacturers face an extraordinary demand to produce high-quality parts and be highly productive and efficient, often with fewer resources. In the past ...

The diameter of a thread milling cutter is smaller than the drilled hole, and the cutter turns in an elliptical orbit to reduce cutting torque when compared with machine tapping. One of the most ...

There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have ...