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Standard Weldon Flat vs Advanced Performance Weldon Flat: What's the Difference?

10/13/2021

Fullerton Tool, offers two types of Weldon Flats: The Standard Weldon Flat (WF) and the Advanced Performance Weldon Flat (AF)

They are essentially the same, but the length of the Weldon Flat in relationship to the cutting tool is different.

The Advanced Performance Weldon Flat (AF) is measured from the flute washout to the flat. This guarantees that the flute or flute washout will not be inside of the holder. If the flute or flute washout is inside the tool holder, the chips can pack into the holder and cause the tool to break.

Standard Weldon Flat

Single-WF-Weldon Flat

Double-WF- Weldon Flat

Standard Weldon Flat Table

Standard Weldon Flat Table

Advanced Weldon Flat

Single-AP- Advanced Weldon Flat

Double-AP-Advanced Weldon Flat

Advanced Weldon Flat Table

Advanced Weldon Flat Table

Turn Your Standard 6" Milling Vise Into A Double Vise in 5 Minutes!

9/27/2021

Do you have 6" Milling Machine Vises in your shop? Would you like to double their productivity in 5 minutes for under $400? Of course you would!

Introducing S&R Products out of Valencia, Callifornia!

S&R Products was founded on the principal of building strong and reliable tools for the manufacturing industry.

All of their products are built in the USA by aerospace machinists using the highest quality materials. Watch the short video below to see how you can start doubling the productivity in your shop in minutes!

Contact Browne & Company today to see all of S&R Products high quality products in your shop today! Click on the button below to see the S&R Products full offering brochure

Ergo ER Taper-shank Indexable Cutters Made for Driven Tools on Swiss CNC Lathes

9/15/2021

Ergo indexable milling spotting chamfering cutter

"Ergo" is a new trademark of Nine9 for ER type indexable cutter. The cutter is assembly kit by the 3 parts including Ergo nut, high strength Ergo pin and Integrated ER taper. Patented design mechanism to produce high clamping Forces and high runout accurancy.

It's perfectly suitable for driven tools and spindles with ER interface of CNC turning centers and swiss type automatic lathes such as Star, Citizen, Tsugami, Doosan, Tornos, INDEX, EMAG and so on.

The Ergo provides types ER11, ER16, ER20, ER25 taper-shank cutter. The ergo tooling include milling cutter, spot drill, chamfering tool, corner rounding, engraving tool, deburring tool, center drill and boring tool.

The fundamental concept of an ERGO integrated ER taper/shank cutter is to eliminate the assembly tolerance associated with a straight shank.

A clamping force from the 3 parts including Ergo nut, a high strength pin and ER taper. The Ergo nut drives the pin to Ergo holder into ER taper both positioning and locking everything accurately in place.

Ergo Monoblock milling cutter

Introducing PIM - Products In Motion

9/8/2021

Stop going back to your machine tool manufacture to order replacement wear parts like bellows, way covers, steel cover replacement wipers, way wipers, etc. You are paying WAY too much and waiting WAY too long.

Introducing PIM - Products In Motion out of Rock Falls, Illinois. With over 40 years of manufacturing experience, the PIM team is dedicated to producing the highest quality product and providing the best service in the nation.

Contact the Browne & Company team for more information, or click the button below.

The Different Types of Carbide Taps and When to Use Them

8/18/2021

This is Part 2 of our series on Carbide taps. Be sure to check out Part 1 if you missed it:
Carbide Taps: A Practical User’s Guide to When, What, How and Why

Carbide taps have a lot of advantages, especially when you’re cutting very abrasive materials. The absolute best choice for tapping glass-filled polycarbonates, space age alloys, nonferrous materials, cast iron, and a range of other exotic materials, their anti-friction qualities lead to a longer tool life.

Because of this, you’ll require fewer replacements, less downtime, and increased productivity.

The durability, flexibility, and longevity of carbide taps is unparalleled, allowing you – and your employees – to focus on what’s important: getting the job done.

GWS Tool Group offers an unparalleled selection of taps for many applications, allowing you to source all of your essential taps from one supplier.

In today’s post, we’re going to take a closer look at a few of the options that they offer.

Carbide Taps Allen Benjamin North American GW Schultz GWS TOol Tapping

Standard Screw Thread Insert Taps

Standard Screw Thread Insert Taps

S.T.I. (Screw Thread Insert) Taps are special taps for helical coil wire screw thread inserts, which provide positive means for protecting and strengthening tapped threads in any material.

Typically used on softer abrasive materials, these taps create more accurate thread forms than other standard taps. When you need to be precise, these carbide taps are the best choice.

North American Tool's STI taps are correctly sized to produce an internal thread that accommodates a helical coil wire screw thread insert. The insert, in turn, will accept a screw thread of the nominal size and pitch at final assembly. Screw thread inserts provide stronger tapped threads (stronger assemblies) due to a more balanced distribution of loads throughout the length of thread engagement.

Thread Forming Tap

Thread forming taps Tru-Flo taps

Thread forming taps (Tru-Flo taps) offer improved thread quality and strength due to the fluteless design, and therefore allows for greater fastener strength in the threaded product. This tap does not cut, so it is “chipless,” and therefore will not cause a chip problem. This is why thread forming, over thread cutting, eliminates costly and time-consuming chip clean-up and disposal.

Thread forming taps are fluteless and include lubrication grooves. Not intended for general applications, they work by displacing the metal without removing it. Because of this, they are ideal for chip removal in blind holes.

Tru-Flo Thread Forming Taps Features

Improved thread quality and strength due to fluteless design of tap; allows greater fastener strength in threaded product.
Tapping speeds can be increased as much as double that of conventional cutting taps…more tapped holes per hour.
Thread forming (over thread cutting) eliminates costly and time-consuming chip clean-up and disposal.
Improved tap life, even in abrasive materials…no cutting edges to get dull.
Lubrication grooves allow forced passage of air and lubricant when tapping.
Simplifies tapping of problematic blind bottoming holes where adequate chip clearance is impossible with chip-producing cutting taps.

Carbide Insert Taps

Carbide Insert Taps

A cost-efficient solution, only the cutting portion of insert taps is made from carbide. Their HSS body is able to absorb vibration and account for their lack of rigidity.

If you’re considering testing the waters with carbide taps, insert taps are a great option. It's a very economical way to utilize the benefits of carbide with solid carbide cutting face inserts meticulously brazed to a H.S.S. tap body.

Carbide Insert Tap Features

High speed steel body absorbs excessive shock and offers the rigidity necessary to minimize carbide breakage or chipping.
Ideal for high production runs, offering the capability to achieve higher speeds and feeds, with fewer tool changes.
High performance tapping allows greater efficiencies in part throughput.
Can also be used in conjunction with surface treatments for enhanced performance.
Carb-I-Sert® Taps are available in a wide range of sizes (inch and metric) in both straight and taper pipe threads.

Pricing Volatility In The Metalworking Fluid Industry

7/17/2021

The Never before have we experienced pricing volatility in metalworking fluids like today

Major Manufacturer #1 just announced a 12% increase, already one of the highest priced products on the market
Major Manufacturer #2 is on their 3rd increase since January
Major Manufacturer #3 is having issues with raw material shortage, not able to produce product
The list goes on and on, this has effected all coolant brands
Steel drum prices are up 54%, just an empty drum
Raw material prices are up 15-45%

These price increases come with long lead times and overall shortages

THAT’S THE BAD NEWS….. THE GOOD NEWS IS
You can overcome this with Advanced Chemical Solutions

We forecasted this 8-10 months ago.

Secured more warehouse space to store raw materials
Hired additional help in the plant
Increased raw material inventory (doubled in some cases)
Modified our min/max levels to reflect longer lead times
Increased our finished goods inventory

These changes were in preparation for the current market

We can bring the SOLUTION to you, today… Quality, Price and Availability

Please give Advanced Chemical Solutions an opportunity to quote your coolants and oils today

Contact Browne & Company

No chatter. No Screeching. Fantastic Fit. Tri-cam Countersinks from Rocky Mountain Twist

7/13/2021

Tri-cam Countersinks. Available in High Speed Steel and Cobalt, they truly are smoother, quieter and perform better than the rest.

Precision CNC diamond machining insures exact specifications and consistency
Finely tuned cutting edges deliver smoother countersink finish
High-flow flutes for excellent material evacuation
Oversized cross hole allows easy countersink removal
100º countersink angle

Browne & Company Will Be Displaying At PMTS 2021!

6/30/2021

Visit Browne & Company in Booth 2088

This year at PMTS, our Booth # 2088 will be featuring Advanced Chemical Solutions, Fullerton Tool Company, and Everede Tool Company.

Understanding the relationship between cutting tools and metalworking fluids provides us with an advantage you will not find with any other exhibitor, an advantage that you can put to work for you.

Friendly members of our team will be ready to answer any questions you might have.

To check out Booth 2088 in person, be sure to register for PMTS below!

Hope to see you there!

Register For PMTS Here!

Carbide Taps: A Practical User’s Guide to When, What, How and Why

6/17/2021

Highly abrasive materials like cast iron, polymers, glass filled polycarbonates, and some cast aluminum are called “hard” materials for a reason. They’re hard to machine, hard on tool life and hard on production cycle times.

How do you overcome the difficulties of making parts out of challenging raw stock? By using a tool that’s even tougher. Consider a change from steel taps to carbide taps.

When to Use Carbide Taps

While high speed steel (HSS) taps have a practical top limit of around 35-40 HRC before tool life becomes severely limited, carbide is often used in materials with hardness up to 65 HRC (the ones that chew up HSS in no time).

With the appropriate style for the application, tool life of carbide can be 520 times that of HSS, with the added bonus of superior accuracy.

What Carbide Taps to Use

That’s easy. GWS Tool Group carbide taps are American made from high-quality C2 micro-grain carbide by highly skilled machinists on state-of-the-art equipment, and are backed by decades of experience from our support staff.

We offer carbide taps in UN and Metric sizes as well as straight and NPT/F Pipe and STI Standards. A wide range of styles and features are available, including straight flute, spiral flute, spiral point, and forming taps. For increased performance and life, we can customize tools with a full line of surface coatings such as TiN, TiCN, and TiALN.

How to Use Carbide Taps

Machining with carbide does come with some “do’s and don’t”. Hand tapping is generally not recommended. Rigid tapping and spot-on alignment are critical to avoid breakage. Not to worry, however. Modern CNC equipment is ideally suited for carbide applications.

Here’s some additional tips. Coolant holes through the taps are an option for flushing chips out of the holes on the most difficult materials like some of the tougher stainless steels and space-age alloys. Carbide STI (Screw Thread Insert) tapping of these materials has become commonplace in the aeronautical and aerospace industries.

The Why of Carbide Taps

CARB-I-SERT® CARBIDE INSERT TAPS

CARB-I-SERT® CARBIDE INSERT TAPS

Although initially more expensive than HSS taps, significant savings can be realized, especially in long-run jobs. Higher cutting speeds, greater tool life, and reduced downtime from fewer tooling changes translate into reduced machining costs.

An alternative to costly larger sizes is our line of CarbISert® Taps. Solid carbide cutting surfaces are bonded onto a high-speed steel body to provide the best of both worlds; durability of carbide with the “forgiveness” of a steel body and shank.

So, don’t let difficult materials give you a “hard” time. Contact us anytime and put our carbide taps to work for you.

Watch for Part 2 of this series on carbide taps!
Coming in August 2021: The Different Types of Carbide Taps and When to Use Them

Everede's Nine9 Chamfer Mill Promo!

5/28/2021

Two of our most popular chamfer mill systems are on sale until July 31, 2021
Please contact us for your closest, authorized Everede distributor

Chamfer Mill Promo