Cutting Tools for Engineers |
Common terms and phrases
Aluminium arbor area of cut axis boring Brass broach built-up edge carbon steel cast iron cause centre chip chisel circular clearance angle coolant cup-wheel cutting action cutting angle cutting edge cutting speed cutting tool depth of cut diameter diamond Diamond Tool die-head drill Dry Soluble end mill engineer FACING CUTTERS feet per minute ferrite finish flat flutes front clearance grinding ground hard hardening heat helix angle high speeds high-speed steel hole lathe tool machine tool material method mild steel milling cutter milling machine mounted necessary negative rake number of teeth operation piece pitch plane possible produce radius reamer revolutions per minute rotation roughing screw shank shape shown in Fig single-point tools slide slots smooth soft spindle spiral square straight wheel suitable surface swarf taper temperature thread tooth tooth-rest top rake TREPANNING tungsten carbide turn usual wheel-head whilst width work-head work-piece