Sunday 16 December 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.

Moreover, it is found that the carbide cutting tools are better at cutting materials in comparison to high speed steel cutting tools and therefore a lot of modern day cutting tools are made up of carbide tool tips. If you are using the high speed steel cutting tool to cut a material, then the carbide tool is definitely going to cut it more quickly and efficiently as well. Moreover, you must also remember that you will not be needed to sharpen the carbide cutting tool regularly, unlike the HSS cutting tool.

Carbide is referred to a group of compound that contains a mixture of carbon and another metal element including boron or silicon. Among the most popular compounds among them are calcium carbide, aluminium carbide, silicon carbide and tungsten carbide and iron carbide.

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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  1. I have visited many sites, but I never got a site like yours, excellent posts with information about the latest carbide cutting tool.

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