: February 2003 Test Design Objective: Evaluate hole size and tool life as a function of edge preparation Tool Styles: .250" solid carbide drill Edge Preparations: Up-sharp drill, no hone... A Honed Cutter - Location M Unhoned Cutter - Location B Honed Cutter - Location N SEM Photographs of Unhoned & Honed Cutters Test Summary Current up-sharp drill yields only 30... 0.0005" variable EMG edge prep Test Part: Titanium/Graphite stack for F-18 Hornet Drill Performance in Titanium Stack Northrop Grumman Aircraft Corporation Unhoned Cutter - Location...

Objective: Evaluate the effect of edge geometry on hole size Tool Styles: .250" Jobber Drill Edge Preparations: Up-sharp drill 0.0005" variable EMG hone Test Part: Epoxy Resin/Carbon... Fiber composite sheet Figure 1. Hole Size as a Function of the Number of Holes Drilled for a Standard Jobber Drill Figure 2. Hole Size as a Function of the Number of Holes Drilled... for a Jobber Drill with EMG Test Summary Up-sharp drill hole size was extremely erratic due to rapid tool wear resulting in increased "tool rubbing" causing excessive heat...

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hone a cutting tool, which is precisely directed by a CNC. Along The Cutting Lip Another EMG remedied the short tool life and breakage of drills used to make holes for bolt caps on P...A Better Edge A Better Edge Proper edge preparation improves tool performance. - By Bill Kennedy, Contributing Editor - Bill Kennedy A drill with engineered-microgeometry edge..., the solution was to round the edge with a hand hone to strengthen it. Those edge preparations were relatively crude. Today, cutting tool makers routinely apply hones from 0.003...

), radius or waterfall hone shapes, T-Land (or K-Land), and T-land + hone. The most widely used edge preparation that exists in industry today is the radius and waterfall hone shapes... on to the tool edge, edge hones are applied to cutting tools in a variety of methods. These processes include vibratory honing, honing by hand with diamond stones, mass media honing, slurry... honing, honing inserts with media impregnated rubber wheels, dry blasting, wet blasting, tumbling and brush honing with abrasive media impregnated filaments. Today the process...