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In precision manufacturing, the difference between a component that fails in a week and one that lasts for months often comes down to just a few microns of surface material. When you are specifying a coating for cutting tools, molds, or wear parts, you will almost certainly face the choice between PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) ... Read more

Drilling stainless steel is the ultimate test of patience and tooling. It is notorious for being “gummy” one second and work-hardening into an impenetrable wall the next. If your choice of insert isn’t perfect, you aren’t just looking at poor surface finish—you are looking at catastrophic tool failure, snapped drill bodies, and costly downtime. At ... Read more

There is a specific sound every machinist dreads: that high-pitched squeal halfway through a deep hole in a block of 4140 steel. It usually means your insert just failed, and if you don’t hit the feed hold button in the next half-second, you’re looking at a friction-welded drill body and a scrapped part. At Accurate ... Read more

The sound of a drill failing deep inside a part is something you never forget. It’s not just the squeal—it’s that distinct, sickening “crunch” that tells you the insert didn’t just chip; it likely welded to the material and took the expensive drill body out with it. In my 15 years on the shop floor, ... Read more

If you have ever thrown away an entire drill bit just because the cutting lips chipped or the corner broke down, you know the feeling of watching money hit the scrap bin. In high-volume manufacturing, treating expensive tooling as a consumable is a fast track to bleeding profit. I’ve walked into countless machine shops where ... Read more

If you’ve spent enough time on a shop floor, you know the sound. That low-frequency rumble that suddenly shifts into a high-pitched screech. It’s the sound of a drill failing deep inside a part, and it usually means two things: downtime and scrapped material. In my 15 years working with machining centers and tooling setups, ... Read more

There is a specific sound that makes every shop owner’s stomach drop. It’s not the hum of the spindle or the rhythmic thumping of a punch press. It’s the sudden crunch-snap of a solid carbide drill breaking deep inside a nearly finished part. In that split second, you haven’t just lost a $150 tool. You’ve ... Read more

If you’ve spent any time on a shop floor, you know the most expensive sound in the world isn’t the crash of a tool breaking—it’s the silence of a spindle that isn’t turning. In high-production manufacturing, uptime is everything. Yet, I still see shops relying heavily on solid tooling for applications where they should have ... Read more

In my 15 years on the shop floor, I’ve seen more money wasted on “regrind logistics” than almost any other tooling category. You know the drill (pun intended): you buy a premium solid carbide drill, it runs beautifully for 2,000 holes, and then it dulls. Now, that expensive piece of carbide sits in a bin ... Read more