Friday, December 28, 2007

CNC Tooling

Different types of Tooling

There are different machining processes that are generally defined by what the machine does.

Here are a few examples:

Drilling - Drill presses, mills, hand drills, etc.

Tooling - Drill bit

Routing - Wood router, table router, edge router, etc

Tooling - Router bits

Milling - Mill, Bridgeport, 4- axis mill, 5-axis mill, vertical mill, horizontal mill, etc.

Tooling - End mills, ball mills, ballnose mills, fly cutters, etc

Plasma cutting - Plasma cutter

Tooling - Plasma torch

Cutting - Chop saw, hand saw, band saw, cold saw

Tooling - Circular blades, band type blades

Grinding - Surface grinder, grinder, Timesaver, belt grinder

Tooling - Grinding belts, grinding wheels

Turning - Metal lathe, wood lathe, mini lathe, bench top lathe, etc.

Tooling - Turning tools, parting tools, boring tools, drill bits

You can go on forever with different types of machining and machines. There are many different types of unique machines. Anywhere you can save time or money by using a machine, people have found out how to do it. Even if that means they need to rig it up themselves.



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