Sunday, December 16, 2018

Understanding The Benefits Of Carbide Cutting Tools

By Alxa Roffel


There are a lot of manufacturers that make use of the carbide cutting tools in order to shape a wide range of tools, multiple products and prototypes from metals. A cutting tool is a tool that is used to remove the metal from an unformed block of material, using the deformation method.

The factors include the ability of the tool to last longer, handle rough operations and enhance the productivity or speed of the work. Apart from this the tools resistance towards the wear and tear, durability towards breakage, edge, cratering, etc. also plays an important role in the selection process. The selection process is influenced by the following factors:

The continuous need for high end cutting tools has inspired many manufacturers to continuously keep developing the cutting tools. There are a lot of materials that have been used for the manufacturing of the cutting tools. There were a number of experiments done on it and there were materials that were able to succeed in it while others could not make it to the limelight.

In the current times, people generally opt for two types of cutting tools, which is also very popular among the machining industry. It includes the high speed steel cutting tools and the carbide cutting tools. And the carbide cutting tools have of course pushed up to some new heights. There are different benefits of choosing the carbide cutting tools instead of high speed steel cutting tools.

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.

You also need to keep in mind that the carbide tools are detachable and invertible; this simply means they can be flipped and rotated to get a new cutting edge. Moreover, the manufacturers are able to get more cutting time from each insert; this also reduces the material costs of the equipment.

It is of course important for the cutting tool to be harder and stronger than the material to be cut. This is also the reason the cutting tools that are used to shape the metal workpieces are needed to be harder than the metal and can withstand the high friction and heat, which is formed due to high speed machining. The carbide tool tip that you may find in machine is made up of a compound of carbon and tungsten commonly, this is otherwise known as tungsten carbide.

The carbide cutting tools are known to offer toughness, are more resistant towards abrasion wear, resistant to cratering and heat deformation. It has great modulus of elasticity, has chemical inertness and of course is more durable as compared to high speed cutting tools. It also consists of a lot of compressive strength.




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