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If you’ve spent enough time on a shop floor, you know the specific, sinking feeling of hearing a drill scream halfway through a deep hole. It usually ends with a loud pop, a spindle load monitor spiking to 100%, and a scrap part. When we look at tooling catalogs, it’s easy to get fixated on ... Read more

If you’ve spent enough time on the shop floor, you know the feeling. You’re running a batch of 316 stainless, your speeds and feeds are right out of the catalog, and coolant pressure is good—yet the holes are coming out bell-mouthed, or the surface finish looks like the threads of a bolt. The immediate reaction ... Read more

Every shop manager knows the feeling. You’ve got a half-million-dollar machining center sitting idle because the operator is digging through a drawer looking for a specific twist drill, or worse, re-touching off a tool because the regrind length changed. In the manufacturing world, hole-making is often the biggest bottleneck in production, yet it’s frequently the ... Read more

If you’ve spent enough time on a shop floor, you know the sound of a bottleneck. It’s usually the rhythmic, agonizing peck-peck-peck of a High-Speed Steel (HSS) twist drill trying to punch a 2-inch hole through 4140 steel. In the world of production machining, hole-making often accounts for the largest percentage of machining time. Yet, ... Read more

Stop guessing which drill to buy. We break down the cost-per-hole, cycle time, and tolerance differences between Solid Carbide and Indexable drills so you can maximize ROI. There is a specific sound every machinist knows—and dreads. It’s the “thump-crunch” of a drill body friction-welding itself inside a part because the coolant lines clogged or the ... Read more

If you’ve spent any time on a production floor, you know the specific pain of hearing a $200 solid carbide drill snap deep inside a workpiece. It’s not just the cost of the tool; it’s the downtime, the spark erosion needed to remove the broken bit, and the scrapped part. In high-production manufacturing, reliability and ... Read more

There is a specific sound that makes every machinist’s stomach drop. It’s not the high-pitched whine of a spindle ramping up—it’s that sudden, sickening crunch that happens when a tool fails deep inside a part. If you’ve worked with indexable drills long enough, you know that sound. It usually means the difference between swapping out ... Read more

Chamfering – the process of beveling the edge of a workpiece – and deburring – the removal of sharp, hazardous edges left after cutting or machining – are critical finishing steps across countless industries, from aerospace and automotive to medical device manufacturing and general fabrication. Traditionally, these tasks could be time-consuming or require multiple tools.

A significant leap forward in milling machine workholding has arrived with the introduction of the innovative Da Double Angle Collets. Engineered to solve the persistent challenges of secure gripping and extreme precision, these collets are setting a new benchmark for holding force, concentricity, and versatility in demanding machining environments. Traditional collets often face limitations in ... Read more