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It’s easy to assume that not much has changed with face mills for a while. There’s been so much attention on other milling processes over the last few years, and face mills, or shell mills, were ...

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Smax Micro design from Ingersoll Cutting Tools leaves a thick, rigid tool core after insert pockets and gullets are formed. Tangential milling has long been a familiar technique for speeding up flat ...

Walter AG (www.walter-tools.com) has introduced several new milling cutters. The company said its Xtratec shoulder milling cutters F4041 and F4042 are almost identical tools for machining shoulders, ...

Cutting tool and tooling system specialist Sandvik Coromant has unveiled a new high-feed version of the CoroMill 745 face milling cutter, featuring a 25° entering angle for additional productivity ...

Milling machines can be pretty intimidating beasts to work with, what with the power to cut metal and all. Mount a fly cutter in the mill and it seems like the risk factor goes up exponentially. The ...