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    Steel and Carbide tools(Post)

    How Tool Manufacturing and Materials Affect Quality The materials used and the processes tools go through during manufacturing play a crucial role in determining their quality. For steel or carbide t ...

    CSM Gumming(Page)

    Saw gumming is an operation that must be performed on all saws to be retipped.  It must be done accurately so the saw does not run out of balance and the tip recesses are all the same depth.&nbs ...

    Machine Coolant Filtering Successes(Page)

    The shop is West Coast Saws in Tacoma WA. at 2725 S. Ash St and it is owned by Brian Wallinger.   They grind saws and tools within one - one thousandth of an inch and have a computerized v ...

    Books (Page)

    Books Available for Purchase Building Superior Brazed Tools 265 pages, 390 Illustrations, 70 chapters, 200 pages on tool building plus 15 chapters on safety and health. Th ...

    Filtration Glossary continued n-r(Page)

    Machine Coolant Filtration Glossary Here is a glossary of Filtration Terms and their meanings.  Please refer to the Machine Coolant Filtration Index for articles and information on these t ...

    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 ...

    CSM Face Grinding(Page)

    More saws are literally butchered by facing improperly than by any other grinding operation.  In the first place, when a saw is first manufactured it has cutting geometry that is designed to per ...

    Can Cleaners Harm Saw Blades(Page)

    Also See: Soaking Saw Tips in Oven Cleaner First, there are thousands of grades of carbide so discussing the properties of carbide is like discussing the properties of wood. Therefore, I suppos ...

    Tool Tipping Materials(Page)

    Carbide & Other Tool Tipping Materials   From the book Building Superior Brazed Tools Buy the Book  Considerations in material selection 1. The big question: How much material c ...

    Grinding Carbide- Health and safety risks(Page)

     From the book Building Superior Brazed Tools     Buy the Book Contents The Metals Explanation for Non-scientists Air Collection Information and Equipment Hardme ...

    Saw Blade Face Grinding(Page)

    by Lowell Freeborn More saws are literally butchered by facing improperly than by any other grinding operation.  In the first place, when a saw is first manufactured it has cutting geometry tha ...

    Particles in Machine Coolant(Page)

    Microscopic Particles Damage Tools In Precision Machining  Many machine shops remove the big chips from the machine coolant and consider it clean.  Very few shops adequately filter their m ...

    Split Tips(Page)

    Split Tip Breakage Problem:  Tips are highly susceptible to breakage even during routine handling.  Executive Summary:   The carbide is not strong enough for the applicatio ...

    Bad Surface and Gumming(Page)

       Chrome Plating Not Gummed Out of Notch   These are the tips we broke out of a saw.  Two that were side ground  and one that had just been brazed into the saw and n ...

    Making A Really Good Saw Blade(Page)

    A good saw blade is whatever the customer likes. Here is what I like: 1.  Personally I think the very best saw blades come from a very few, really top-end custom shops.  2.  In this ...

    Debarker Tip Breakage(Page)

      Induction Brazing   History There is greatly increased breakage coincident with the switch in brazing alloys from BAg-3 (50% with Cadmium) to BAg-24 (50% Cadmium free).   ...

    Machine Coolant Sump Cleaning(Page)

    (This is a cleaning method for cleaning machine coolant sumps running water based machine coolants.  This is, perhaps, overkill in many cases but how much of this to do is your decision.  F ...

    When and Why to Fine Filter Machine Coolant(Page)

    For most purposes flat bed, cyclone, centrifugal and similar filter systems may be more than adequate.  There are some situations where fine filtering is a definite advantage.  Refer back t ...

    Diamond Grinding Saw Blades(Page)

    Lowell Freeborn The first question you should ask yourself is: What do I expect from a diamond wheel? Your answer should be a wheel that removes carbide fast and cool. Think this over very careful ...

    CSM Diamond Grinding(Page)

    The first question you should ask yourself is: What do I expect from a diamond wheel? Your answer should be a wheel that removes carbide fast and cool. Think this over very carefully and do not get ...