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Rex-Cut Products, Inc. (Fall River, MA) offers a full line of cotton fiber mounted points that are ideal for removing slag and splatter from welds on stainless steel and aluminum fabrications.

ESCO Tool offers the MILLHOG® Air Clamp™, an air-operated cylinder that fits the firm's small diameter welding end prep tools for use on tube and pipe up to 3 in ID.

IMAGE Industries offers its new line of digital arc stud welding equipment – Smart Weld™ – with advanced data management for statistical process control (SPC) documentation.

Stoody® Company introduces the new Stoody® 300 Series Flux Cored Wire. For over 85 years, Stoody Company has been the world's leader in the production of cored welding wires.

Weldcraft offer its WP-25 flexible neck, water-cooled TIG torch. The WP-25 is a pencil-style torch that offers 200 amp capacity and features an efficient cooling design that minimizes downtime from overheating.



TANGENTIAL MILLING OF
MOLDS AND DIES

Check out how this old concept is bringing new life to the slab milling process.


In most die and mold shops, one of the biggest single chunks of machining time goes to slab milling, so speeding that operation exerts a lot of positive leverage on profitability and competitiveness.

 


Tangential mills, now available in smaller sizes, improve roughing throughput and edge life on difficult small grooves and pockets.

Just ask Riviera Tool Company (Grand Rapids, MI) a very progressive die and mold shop that runs 24/6 serving the automotive and truck-body market. Over the past year, the company has switched over to tangential milling for the rough and finish slabbing work, and raised throughput more than 40 percent. Tool life rose as well, while power consumption dropped.

 

Riviera does the slab milling with an assortment of Ingersoll tangential milling cutters – 4 in, 6 in, 8 in, 12 in and the new 1 in diameter cutters, the smallest tangential milling cutter available.

 

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