Our thoughtful contributor sends the following insight: “Sometimes in the process of milling process we change their thickness for technological reasons. We can do it because the roughing hob tooth ...

Quick, what’s 360 divided by 23? It’s easy enough to get the answer, of course, but if you need to machine a feature every 15.652 degrees around a shaft, how exactly would you accomplish that? There ...

Figure 1: The wear effects of time during machining. Wear depends on a lot of factors, especially time, as illustrated in Figure. 1. Variable forces during the cutting process also influence wear – ...