Milling cutter has more teeth
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Able to carry indexable milling inserts with 16 cutting edges for roughing and finishing cycles, LMT (UK)’s MultiEdge Double 8 universal face milling cutter from not only allows high feed rates to be maintained, but due to the number of cutting edges available, stock levels of inserts can be significantly reduced.
In a recent customer trial involving face milling the joint faces of dies at 180 m/min removing some 60 cubic cm of stock material a minute, tool life was not only increased by 25 per cent but, because of the 16 indexable edges positioned eight per side of the double-sided insert, the total number of cutting inserts normally required for the job was halved.
The combination of the range of MultiEdge Double 8 cutter bodies and insert can be used for roughing and finishing steel and cast iron with the availability of two insert sizes of 12.7 mm and 16 mm.
The diameters of the monoblock cutter bodies range from 32 mm to 160 mm with between three and 19 insert pockets according to the size of the body. Due to the lower axial forces involved from the design of the insert, even when roughing, the surfaces created are extremely flat and smooth.
Inserts are available in carbide grades LC225T, LC240T for use with or without coolant for steel and LC610T for cast iron.
