ISCAR’s New High-Performance HELIQMILL 390
08.12.2013
The invention of the HELIMILL in the 1990’s – the first indexable sintered carbide insert with helical cutting edge – elevated ISCAR’s reputation as a producer of milling tools. The helical cutting edge, produced by the intersection of a helical relief surface and a rake face of a complex shape, ensures positive and constant rake angles along the whole edge. This brought considerable practical benefits: smooth cutting action, advantageous chip formation, lower cutting forces and power consumption, better tool life and more. As a result, the helical cutting edge significantly increased productivity and improved tool performance. Almost every indexable milling tool, first of all a cutter intended for machining 90o shoulders, is on the helical cutting edge as a basic design principle.
Today the families of HELIMILL-based milling cutters feature a broad spectrum of insert geometries and sizes. Such a rich variety ensures success of the original HELIMILL in practically all shoulder milling operations. These cutters effectively machine all types of engineering materials and the accuracy of machined surface and its roughness are good enough. One would think that it is perfection itself. Is there an opportunity for a qualitative improvement of the HELIMILL? Now we can answer positively.
New ISCAR HELIQMILL 390 Delivers Extra Performance
ISCAR introduces the ISCAR HELIQMILL 390 line – a new step of development of the insert, with helical cutting edge. The new line incorporates all the advantages of HELIMILL. However, in ISCAR’s new HELIQMILL 390 line, the added advantages of an extra cutting edge, extra-strong design, extra reliability and extra accuracy lead to extra performance. This provides productive milling of true 90o in combination with an improved cost per cutting edge.The HELIQMILL 390 inserts are produced from ISCAR’s innovative SUMO TEC carbide grades, which contribute largely to increasing productivity. The new tools are intended for machining shoulders, slots and planes. In addition, they can be a good choice in milling surfaces, ramping-down or helical interpolation such as pockets or cavities. The tools are available as endmills with shanks and face mills with a central bore.
This new milling line with a cutting triangle is ISCAR’s state-of-the-art development that not only continues the evolution of the ISCAR HELIMILL line, but brings additional benefits to the end-user.
For more information on ISCAR, a member of Partners in THINC, visit http://www.okuma.com/iscar.
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