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    Bandsaw Blade Brazing(Post)

    Bandsaw (Band Saw) Blade Brazing Six Easy Steps Clean and bevel the blade ends  Clamp blade ends to the fixture Spread the flux Braze Anneal Remove excess alloy Size of Blade With a very smal ...

    CSM Planer Combination Style(Page)

    4 TOOTH AND RAKER COMBINATION SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS: Hook 15° 4 Teeth 25° A. T. B. 1 Tooth Raker .015 Lower Sides 2° and 3° USE: This is one of the oldest style carbide saws ...

    CSM Contractors Combination Style(Page)

    SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS: Standard 20° Hook2 Scoring Teeth and 1 Raker25° A.T.B. Scoring TeethRaker .015 Below Scoring TeethSides 2° and 3° USE: This saw has enough hook to make ...

    CSM Three and One Combination Style(Page)

    SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS: Hook 10° 20°       F. B. 20°       T. B. Sides 2° & 3° USE: These styles of saws are ...

    Brazing Flux(Page)

    Brazing Flux covers the area being brazed and keeps oxygen away from the materials. A good braze joint is both physically and chemically bound.  If oxygen gets in then the steel or carbi ...

    Brazing Tungsten Carbide(Page)

    I routinely get calls from people who are having trouble brazing carbide and don’t know why.  Brazing tungsten carbide is a very easy and reliable process if a few simple steps are taken b ...

    How Flux Affects Brazing(Page)

    Good & Bad Tips    Good           Bad     Good parts have an even flow to all four corners.  ...

    Braze Failure(Page)

     Solutions to Brazing Problems (This is an overview article largely based on customer reports.  Most of this is covered in much greater depth with photographs in other articles and in ...

    Steel Brazing- Brazing to Laser Cut Steel(Page)

     Why You Need To Gum Saw Plate  (You can buy saw plate that has been sandblasted to remove the heat affected zone.  This can work but it takes a lot of sandblasting.)    ...

    Types of Drill Bits(Page)

    With dozens of drill bit types and thousands of sizes to choose from we'll explain the differences and help you choose the right drill bit for your application. Anatomy of a drill bit: Material ...

    Bandsaw Blade Brazing(Page)

    Bandsaw (Band Saw) Blade Brazing   Clean and bevel the blade ends  Clamp blade ends to the fixture Spread the flux Braze Anneal Remove excess alloy Size of Blade With a very sma ...

    Advanced Brazing Training(Page)

    Deliverables on Previous Projects Eliminate tungsten carbide breakage entirely Reduce tungsten carbide braze failure to six sigma (3 parts per million) Eliminate rework Improve bo ...

    Carbide Defects(Page)

    Common Tungsten Carbide Defects From the book Building Superior Brazed Tools    Buy the Book Internal The most common and most serious problems in Carbide are internal.  Left i ...

    Brazing Ceramics with Standard Alloys(Page)

    Brazing Ceramics Simple, Cheap and Very Strong Ceramics can now be metallized for brazing by a simple, cheap plating process. A ceramic such as Alumina is plated with a metal and then the p ...

    CSM Plymaster Style(Page)

    10 TOOTH AND RAKER COMBINATION SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS: 10° Hook Top Angles 25° Sides 2° and 3° USE: This combination saw has more scoring teeth and less rakers.  It will cr ...

    CSM Saw Styles(Page)

    The following pages show photographs of several styles of carbide sawsand their general specifications:     Alternate Top Bevel Style   Chip Breaker Style   C ...

    Tungsten Carbide Tips(Page)

    Save on Carbide Saw Tips, Stump grinder Teeth and STB blanks. Choose from many different sizes and grades or get a quote for a custom.   Click here to check out our online sel ...

    Saw Tip Grinds(Page)

    Saw Tip Configurations (also Styles or Grinds) The overall shape of a saw tip is called the "grind" because it is ground in after the tip is put on the saw body.      FTG ( ...

    CSM Brazing(Page)

    This operation actually consists of silver soldering and requires practice to become efficient at it. There are two generally accepted methods. One is to pre-tin the carbide tip by applying flux to i ...

    Filtering EDM Fluid(Page)

    The most frequently overlooked factor in the EDM process is the filtration method used to maintain the dielectric fluid.  A typical tool and die operation had 12 EDM's, each with its own standa ...