End Mills are used for making shapes and holes in a workpiece during milling, profiling, contouring, slotting, counterboring, drilling, and reaming applications. They are designed with cutting teeth on the face and edge of the body and can be used to cut a variety of materials in several directions. Find out more about the types of mills MSC offers and all the applications in which they can be used.
Square end mills are used for general milling applications including slotting, profiling, and plunge cutting.
Ball end mills, also known as ball nose end mills, are used for milling contoured surfaces, slotting, and pocketing. A ball end mill is constructed of a round cutting edge and used in the machining of dies and molds.
Roughing end mills, also known as hog mills, are used to quickly remove large amounts of material during heavier operations. The tooth design allows for little to no vibration but leaves a rougher finish.
Corner radius end mills have a rounded cutting edge and are used where a specific radius size is required. Corner chamfer end mills have an angled cutting edge and are used where a specific radius size is not required. Both types provide longer tool life than square end mills.
Roughing and finishing end mills are used in a variety of milling applications. They remove heavy material while providing a smooth finish in a single pass.
Solid Carbide provides better rigidity than high-speed steel (HSS). It is extremely heat resistant and used for high-speed applications on cast iron, nonferrous materials, plastics, and other tough-to-machine materials. Carbide end mills provide better rigidity and can be run 2-3X faster than HSS. However, heavy feed rates are more suitable for HSS and cobalt tools.
The key difference between PVD and CVD is that the coating material in PVD is in solid form whereas in CVD it is in gaseous form. PVD and CVD are coating techniques, which we can use to deposit thin films on various substrates. Coating of substrates is important on many occasions. The coating can improve the functionality of the substrate; introduce new functionality onto the substrate, protect it from harmful…
Today I talk about how to choose cemented carbide milling cutters. For milling stainless steel, except for end mills, some end mills and hard alloys as milling cutter materials, other types of milling cutters are made of high-speed steel, especially tungsten-molybdenum series and high-vanadium high-speed steel, which have good results. The durability can be 1 to 2 times higher than W18Cr4V. Cemented carbide grades suitable for…
Cemented carbide milling cutter refers to a milling cutter made of cemented carbide. To understand cemented carbide milling cutters, you must first know what cemented carbide is. The cemented carbide is mainly composed of high-hardness, refractory metal carbides (WC, TiC) and micron powders, with cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni) , Molybdenum (Mo) as a binder, powder metallurgy products sintered in a vacuum furnace or a hydrogen…
The safety precautions for using carbide CNC blade cutting tools are as follows 1. The cemented carbide material has a high specific gravity, so when the size and quantity are large, special attention should be paid to it and should be treated as a heavy object 2. Carbide cutting tools will produce higher cutting temperature, dust and mist during grinding. Dust or mist can cause harm…
The materials of industrial CNC carbide cermet inserts have complex chemical composition. The CNC carbide inserts material is made by adding secondary carbides (such as WC, Mo2C, TAC and Co Ni) as binders in tic tin matrix. The commercial cermets have high hardness and strength and toughness comparable to cemented carbide. With the continuous improvement of cermet properties, it has become a very popular metal cutting tool material. It is…