Use High-End Indexable Carbide Inserts to Get the Finish of Your Products

Posted by mike brown on August 4th, 2016

Do you need a tool for grinding and cutting hard surfaces? You can use an end mill made of carbide, which is apt for this purpose. Carbide tools are made of tungsten carbide, a fine gray powder that is a mixture of tungsten and carbon in equal parts and is used to make industrial tools like end mills, thread mills, taps, drills, and reamers. These tools are better and stronger than those made of steel and titanium when you need to cut hard materials like carbon and stainless steel. The durability factor of carbide makes its tools last throughout the whole production activity in an industry. Moreover, carbide tools provide a better finish to the products as compared to other materials.

Many industries like woodworking, metal fabrication, furniture, stone cutting, porcelain, aerospace and many others use carbide end mills to make specific cuts on a surface. They are available in two types: which are single and double ended that is further divided into variety of levels and styles. Of these, the most popular ones are 2-flute and 4-flute mills. Single end mills are expensive and more in demand as it has been observed that one of the two functional parts of double end mills may malfunction and becomes useless. Carbide end mills work much faster than the conventional cutting tools with excellent dimension control.

In the manufacturing process, carbide inserts are used to provide different drilling and cutting effects on the products. In order to achieve precision and high speed industrial production, carbide inserts are used to provide the cutting edges based on their chemistry and dimensions. Most of the times, indexable carbide inserts are used which are designed in such a way that only the tip or the blade of the tool is made of carbide which makes contact with the product. Indexing gives you the option to get the insert flipped or rotated to get a fresh cutting edge and using it for longer period of time. So, the cost involved in using a carbide tool is minimized by using indexable inserts. Based on industrial requirements, inserts are available as turning inserts, milling inserts and drilling inserts.

You can choose to get these carbide tools for your production facility by looking for them over the internet. Many companies are providing specific tools and machines for different industrial requirements through their websites. All you have to do is to explore them and get best of the tools.