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This innovative long-edge cutting tool from Sandvik Coromant is highly resistant to axial forces and uses four cutting edges to provide productive and economical machining.

This tooling system from Dieterle features hardened and tempered toolholders with a unique location system that provides easy insert change and precise insert location.

The Square 6™ shoulder milling cutter from Seco Tools uses trigonal inserts with six cutting edges to boost productivity and lower the cost per edge, delivering parts for less.

These inserts from Dapra Corporation feature a 45 deg lead angle that increases feed capacity for face milling, profiling, helical interpolation and chamfering.

These Cold-forming Taps from Emuge Corporation are specially designed with unique geometric designs, coatings, and styles for chipless production of internal threads in a wide range of specific applications.

New Roller Hydraulic Rollblocks from Hilma utilize a piston-roller package for independent roller actuation and protection against potential overloading of rollers on stamping presses.



METAL-CORED ELECTRODE IMPROVES WELDING TRAVEL SPEED

By Hobart Brothers


This bridge fabricator relied on a solid electrode in its submerged arc welding process until a composite metal-cored electrode improved its welding travel speed by 40 percent a sub-arc bridge fabrication application.



Automated submerged arc welding is specified in bridge fabrication for its high deposition rates, consistency and quality.

Fought & Company's 340,000 sq ft facility in Tigard, OR is the birthplace of many recognizable structural steel and bridge projects in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1949, Fought is responsible for portions of the retractable roof on Safeco Field in Seattle, a 120,000 sq ft steel and glass canopy at Portland International Airport, and over 12,000 tons of steel bridges on I-15 in Salt Lake City, UT.

 

Fought relies on automatic submerged arc welding (or sub arc) to fabricate 90 percent of each bridge that comes through its facility. Sub arc, like all welding processes, joins metals by fusion. Sub arc differs, however, because its shielding is provided by a granular flux material.


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