Sumitomo adds WEX Type 1000 to Wave Mill series

Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal’s WEX Type 1000 cutters and inserts support a range of 90° shoulder type milling applications covering, for instance, pocketing, helical boring, slotting and ramping cycles.

The three cutter body designs incorporate Short Type ‘E’, Short Type ‘EL’ and Shell Type ‘F’ that use a newly developed, smaller Sumitomo AXMT06 insert that has a high rake ‘wave’ style precision cutting edge.

Inserts can be specified from substrates ACP, ACK and ACM, and three chip breaker geometries -L with 25°, -G with 20° and higher edge strength -H which has 5°.

Short Type ‘E’ is available from 10 to 25 mm diameter and has between two and seven insert pockets. Short Type ‘EL’ in diameters between 10 and 20 mm has between two and four teeth, while Shell Type ‘F’ has outside diameters between 32 mm with eight teeth, to 63 mm with 14 teeth.