Eight cutting edges on WNT 4910 shoulder-mill

The 4910 double-sided shoulder-milling system from WNT features eight useable cutting edges per insert. In addition, the cutter body and insert are designed to ensure that a precise 90° cutting profile can be machined. Added to this is the combination of WNT’s Dragonskin coating and the use of a nickel-plated cutter body.

According to WNT, the precision ground inserts are stable and free-cutting, and feature geometry that delivers soft cutting action to minimise strain on the machine spindles, even at high feed rates.

Examples of the performance benefits include a customer machining rough-forged slabs (material 36CrNiMo4) on a DMU 80 Monoblock 43 kW machining centre using the 4910 system for side milling and slot milling. Despite the WNT holder having one insert less than the system used to date, feed per tooth could be increased by more than 100%, and metal removal rate by 84%, to 193 cm³/min.