According to the tooling firm, face grooving with boring tools is generally more efficient than milling through circular interpolation, especially when producing large diameter bores. Also, whenever a sealing surface is required, the company says there is little option other than to use boring tools with face grooving accessories.
The Kaiser face-grooving system can be used as a single- or twin-cutter grooving tool for diameters ranging from 53 to 3,000 mm, at a grooving depth of up to 12 mm and width up to 9.5 mm (5 mm with a single cutter). Using the boring tools as twin cutters, with a simultaneous adjustment in radius and length, allows the feed rate to be increased, says Kaiser.
