Ceramic Tips Machining

This chart shows the relative strengths of various insert shapes.

Ceramic tips machining.

Machining double bearing od. Editor emeritus production machining cutting with reinforced ceramic inserts put a strain on the tool holder and machine. Manufacturers use ceramic machining to produce a wide range of mechanical electrical and optical appliances. Unlike plastics and metals ceramics never plastically deform.

Under the spk brand ceramtec offers a unique program in terms of scope diversity and performance of indexable inserts made of ceramic cutting materials polycrystalline cubic boron nitrides cbn and cermets for turning grooving milling and boring in a wide variety of industrial applications. Whisker reinforced ceramics are ideal for machining ni based alloys. Their elongated crystals form a self reinforced material with high toughness. On a micro level macor is formed by tiny interlocking crystals of mica suspended in a glassy matrix.

To prepare for the machining process operators wax mount ceramic substrates onto glass surfaces. We show the machining of the od of a double race bearing od from a metric size to an imperial size using a ceramic wnma tip. This means that when machining macor you must be very conscious of chipping. This video was filmed using the noga.