Saturday, December 15, 2018

Understanding The Benefits Of Carbide Cutting Tools

By Alxa Roffel


Cutting tools are often the most important aspect that you would have to consider, if you want to make the best finish of your product. The quality or the type of cutting tool you use often determines how good your end product is going to be. How the tool performs is also going to affect the overall efficiency and productivity of the system. This is why it is found that almost every manufacturer that you come across looks to find the best cutting tool for their equipment.

As far as manufacturing industry is concerned, the carbide cutting tools play a very important role in shaping and moulding of the machine metal tools, etc. as they are used for finishing of the machine latches and equipment. Also the carbide cutting tools offer more strength, heat and chemical resistance that is very essential for proper cutting of hard materials, which includes steel and iron.

There are various uses of cutting tools, manufacturers that produce a variety of consumer products require different types of precisely shaped tools, molds, casting and fasteners. This can include the metal mold and castings for blow or injection molded plastic products. It can also include cutting tools that can be used for machines, shaping plastic or even wood.

It also includes the manufacturing of metal fasteners, such as screws, nuts and bolts; the manufacturing tools are machined from the metal workpieces into latches and the CNC machines. The carbide cutting tools are specifically used as the blade of the latches and the forming machines.

In the manufacturing industry the use of carbide cutting tools have become the most popular tool material and preferred for every cutting situations. Although the carbide is a hard and simultaneously a brittle material, the durability that it offers and the cutting edge that it offers make it efficient as compared to the HSS cutting tools. If you want to run a good business, it becomes very important to take care of the productivity to be successful.

There are different uses of carbides for industrial applications. The type of carbides used in industrial applications is otherwise known as cemented carbide products and are generally differentiated into three categories. The first being the wear grades, which are used in dies, machines and tool guides. Second is the impact grades, they are comparatively more shock resistance carbide products used for dies, more specifically for stamping and forming. Lastly, the cutting tool grades, where the carbide tools are used for cutting.

The carbide cutting tools are further divided into two different groups, which include the cast iron carbide and the steel grade carbide. The cast iron carbides are of course made out of cast iron materials, which are found to be more resistant towards abrasive wear; it protects the cutting too from edge wear the abrasiveness of the cast iron helps in it. Then you have the steel grade carbides that are exclusively made to offer resistance to the cratering and heat deformation, which is often caused by the long chips of steel on higher cutting speeds. Irrespective of the grade of the carbide that is used in the cutting tool, the most popular material used in its manufacturing process is the tungsten carbide. It preferred because of the hardness and resistance it offers towards wear. Also a cobalt binder is used to harden the tools surface.

The tungsten compound is comparatively harder and definitely brittle as well. However, the chemical properties that it has make it very important. Carbide is considerably a stable material; it cannot be changed with heat, unlike steel. Therefore, used as tool tips, it is able to withstand the heat and also the high speed metal machining for a longer duration. There are different types of tools that you can look for which have carbide tool tip and generally preferred over others because of their quality and the capability as well.




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