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Cutting Diamond
        In manufacturing parts from composites, drilling
        is widely regarded as the major cutting operation.
        Improving capabilities of drilling tools has had a direct
        impact on the effectiveness of machining composites
        and composite stacks.
        Most recently, ISCAR introduced a series of new
        solid drills, in the diameter range of 3.3-12 mm
        (.130-.500"), which are specially designed for
        composites. The common feature of these tools is
        the use of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or diamond
        coating to ensure high abrasion wear resistance. There
        are several types of these new drills; one of them is
        based on using a PCD nib as a central point of a drill,
        and another type has a diamond wafer. Both drill types
        offer a large area for multiple regrinding.
        The third type of drills are solid carbide tools with a
        diamond-coated cutting area. Their wavy cutting edge
        facilitates reducing burr formation, specifically when
        drilling carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) and
        CFRP-Aluminum stacks.













 Exotic for Exotic: advantageous ceramics  ceramics. The mills are intended mostly for rough
 Cemented carbide is still the main cutting material for   and semi-finish machining of planes and 3D surfaces
 machining. Introducing carbide tools revolutionized   at extremely high cutting speeds. The economical
 the metalworking industry ensuring a significant   double-sided insert design provides high ceramics
 growth of productivity due to sharply increased cutting  utilization. The inserts are made from several ceramic
 speeds. However, despite this, even today cutting   grades such as "black" ceramics, whisker reinforced
 speeds for difficult-to-machine Ni- and Co-based   ceramics and SiAlON (a type of silicon-nitride-based
 high-temperature superalloys (HTSA) are low: typically   ceramics). Applying the new mills is directed on
 within the range of 25-50 m/min (80-160 sfm). How   maximizing metal removal rate (MRR) and dramatic
 do we expand the speed boundaries?  reduction in cycle time.

 Exotic ceramic materials have already found   One more example of successful usage of cutting
 themselves as cutting materials. Using exotic ceramic   ceramics is another of ISCAR's latest products: a
 material ensures a totally different level of cutting   family of solid endmills from SiAlON. The endmills
 speeds. For example, machining the superalloys by   were designed specifically for productive rough
 ceramic tools, the cutting speed 1000 m/min (3300   machining Ni-based superalloys such as various
 sfm) is completely real. Therefore, ceramic tools   grades of Inconel, Incoloy, Haynes, etc. in the
 become more and more common in machining HTSA.  aerospace industry. In comparison with typical solid
 Recently, ISCAR developed a family of indexable   carbide endmills, SiAlON endmills allow an increase in
 shell mills carrying double-sided inserts made from   cutting speed of up to 50 times!






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