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Learning More About Carbide Cutting Tools

By Alxa Roffel


Carbide cutting tools have become popular overtime. In general, people preferred to make use of the HSS cutting tools, however, as they were not efficient enough to remove enough materials in the desired time that was allowed for the job. Even though the carbide cutting tools are comparatively expensive to the high speed steel cutting tools, they last longer and are able to remove more material per cut.

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:

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.

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.

When the carbide cutting tool is used for cutting materials, a cooling system is used along with it, to lower the temperature of the blade and material lower. This allows the material to keep warping and in the materials that are treated with heat, it keeps them away from altering the temper of the material.

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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