Cutting Tool Steel

High tension hack saw includes an additional mini hack saw and features 45 and 90 cutting angles for versatility.

Cutting tool steel.

It has good machinability along with a balance of wear resistance and toughness. A 2 is an air hardening steel containing a medium amount of alloying material chromium. Steel comes in many different forms and thicknesses. This grade of tool steel is mainly used for items like cutting tools and drills as well as knives and forks.

Travers tool offers a wide range of high speed steel hss solid carbide cutting tools. Our selection of tools includes blanks tools bits solid boring bars broaches chasers counterbores step drills countersinks dies. When one point of an insert dulls rotate it to use a sharp point. Thin gauge steel like sheet metal can be cut with a large variety of tools.

We are an industry leader in the cutting tool business and have all of the tools and expertise you are looking for. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. X 12in 1hp 115 230 volt single phase model hbs 812g. These tools come with one high speed steel insert for use on steel and stainless steel and one high speed steel insert for use on softer materials such as aluminum and brass.

Steel thickness is referred to as gauge the smaller the number of gauge the thicker the steel. Turning speeds are adjusted to the feed rate of the mini lathe 0 004 rev a depth of cut of 0 040 and a tool life of 180 minutes. High tension hack saw includes the stanley 12 in. Cut metal with your circular saw.

This steel can achieve a high hardness but it is rather brittle when compared to other tool steels. As a result tool steels are suited for use in the shaping of other materials. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. Jet horizontal vertical geared head metal cutting band saw 8in.

Typical applications of w grade tool steel include cold heading cutting tools and knives embossing reamers and cutlery. Hot metal chips will fly. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Tool steel refers to a variety of carbon steel and alloy steel that are particularly well suited to be made into tools their suitability comes from their distinctive hardness resistance to abrasion and deformation and their ability to hold a cutting edge at elevated temperatures.

A heavy duty steel reinforced core increases cutting speed while a contoured handle offers comfort and control.