Sep 8, 2026 | Marketing
A cutting tool’s performance is decided long before it ever touches a workpiece. It is decided in the furnace. According to Total Materia’s engineering reference data, high-speed steel cutting tools retain significant hardness up to 500°C, a property known...
Sep 8, 2026 | Marketing
Heavy-duty CNC milling puts high loads, heat, and cutting forces on your tools. A poor setup can lead to edge wear, chipping, vibration, and early tool failure. To increase milling cutter life, you need to consider the entire machining process, not just the cutter....
Sep 7, 2026 | Marketing
A keyway broach is not chosen, it is derived. The bore diameter fixes the key width from the parallel key standard, the standard fixes the depth of the keyway in the hub, and the number you actually broach to is the bore diameter plus that depth, measured straight...
Sep 7, 2026 | Marketing
Two letters on a hob drawing decide more of your finished gear quality than almost anything else on the purchase order, and most enquiries get those two letters wrong in one of two directions. In one direction, a buyer asks for Class AA on a gear that will be profile...
Aug 13, 2026 | Marketing
Quick answer: A standard involute gear cutter chart divides the whole range from a 12 tooth pinion up to a rack across 8 numbered cutters. In the imperial diametral pitch (Brown and Sharpe) system, No. 1 cuts 135 teeth to rack, and No. 8 cuts 12 to 13 teeth. In the...
Jul 30, 2026 | Marketing
If you make torque-transmitting shafts, the words “spline” and “serration” get used interchangeably on the shop floor, and that loose usage causes real problems when it is time to specify the cutting tool. The two are related, but the tooth...
