Mccarthy recalls one shop owner who hesitated initially when confronted with the speeds hard turning calls for.
Machining hardened steel with ceramic inserts.
The shop was cutting 45 rc steel with carbide inserts on a three year old cnc lathe.
Its use behavior greatly influences the key machining parameters tool life cutting speed and surface quality.
There are significant process considerations that shops should examine carefully in order to realize performance and tool life expectations from ceramic inserts.
There are so many different machining tasks that can be efficiently and economically solved with ceramtec s range of cutting materials and indexable inserts for workpieces made of cast iron steel hardened steel and special materials.
Applying ceramic inserts is not a simple substitution of one cutting tool material for another.
Ceramic inserts provide an excellent choice for these types of applications.
Pcbn polycrystalline cubic boron nitride is an advanced material that comes as a result of sintering micron cbn powders with various ceramics to create extremely hard and thermally stable cutting tools.
Turning hardened steel calls for super hard insert grades.
Here s a look at some of the ways they are used.
Si3n4 silicon nitride inserts have high toughness and are suitable for machining cast iron generally grey in colour.
We formulate our secomax pcbn grades to significantly reduce production costs when machining hardened steel pearlitic cast iron hard iron and super alloys.
To produce just one part the shop was using two carbide inserts indexing each one time four cutting points altogether.
Whatever your component or requirements for surface finish find productive insert grades here that can withstand high temperatures and cutting forces and still retain their cutting edges.
Turning inserts and grades for hardened steel.