Indexable Milling Cutters for Semi Finishing of 3D Surfaces

Stephen Eckersall, group engineering manager in the U.K. for toolholder maker Nikken, recently shot this video to capture the sound—or the lack of sound—of heavy milling passes in titanium using newly developed tooling. Specifically, this video tungsten carbide inserts shows the combination of a new toolholder design from Nikken and a new end mill for titanium from Technicut.

Technicut brought Nikken in on the development of its new high-metal-removal-rate tool for titanium, because the cutting tool maker was seeing minute axial sliding of the tool within various toolholders from high cutting SEER Insert force. Nikken’s response to this problem was a new toolholder design able to restrain the cutter against this movement. Read more about the resulting tool and toolholder combination.

The video, which was shot at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in the U.K., illustrates how quietly the new tool and toolholder perform together. Mr. Eckersall provides these details:

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