Grade selection
Why one grade cannot cover 316L and free-machining stainless
Both sit in ISO M on the chart. On the machine they fail in opposite directions, and the grade that survives one will not survive the other.
5 min read
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Notes from the application desk
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- Process reliability
Setting a tool-change interval you can leave running overnight
Unattended running does not need a longer tool life. It needs a tool life you can predict, and a rule for what happens at the end of it.
6 min read - Threading
Thread milling or tapping: the hole usually decides
Tapping is faster per hole and always will be. That stops mattering the moment the hole is expensive, blind, hardened or thin-walled.
4 min read
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