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A beginner's guide to High Speed Machining
High Speed Machining is milling at high spindle speed with light radial engagement and high feed per tooth It is used for removing metal quickly from thin walled or difficult parts with low cutting force. Typical values:
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A beginner's guide to CNC Turning
CNC Turning is a cutting process where the workpiece rotates and a single point tool removes material It is used for producing diameters, faces, grooves and threads on rotational parts. Typical values: typical tolerance
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A beginner's guide to Thread Milling
Thread Milling is cutting a thread with a rotating cutter that interpolates a helical path, rather than with a tap It is used for threads in hard material, large threads and threads that must be concentric with another f
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A beginner's guide to Deep Hole Drilling
Deep Hole Drilling is drilling holes deeper than about ten times the diameter, with guided tools and high pressure coolant It is used for cooling channels, hydraulic bores and long oil ways that cannot be reached with a
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A beginner's guide to Turn-Mill Centre
Turn-Mill Centre is a lathe with driven tooling and a Y axis, so milling and turning are completed in one machine It is used for complex parts that would otherwise move between a lathe and a machining centre. Typical val
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A beginner's guide to Reaming and Boring
Reaming and Boring is finishing a hole to size with a multi tooth reamer or an adjustable single point boring head It is used for holding hole size and position more closely than drilling can. Typical values: typical tol
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A beginner's guide to Coordinate Measuring Machine
Coordinate Measuring Machine is a measuring machine that probes points on a part and compares them with the nominal geometry It is used for verifying dimensions and geometric tolerances on finished parts. Typical values:
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A beginner's guide to CNC Drilling Machine
CNC Drilling Machine is a machine dedicated to producing holes, with a spindle feed and often a multi spindle head It is used for production drilling, tapping and countersinking on parts with many holes. Typical values:
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A beginner's guide to CNC Milling
CNC Milling is a cutting process where a rotating multi tooth tool removes material from a stationary workpiece It is used for producing flat faces, pockets, slots and contoured surfaces on prismatic parts. Typical value
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A beginner's guide to Hard Milling
Hard Milling is milling material in its hardened state, usually above 45 HRC, with coated carbide or ceramic tools It is used for finishing hardened tool steel and bearing steel without grinding or EDM. Typical values: h
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