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For many decades there has been an awareness of cutting tool edge condition and tool surface finish and the effect it has on piece part quality and tool life. There have been many independent studies, tests, and implementations of edge conditioning methods to create extended life in turning, drilling, and milling cutter tooling – some published but most kept “secret” as a manufacturing advantage. The “Deburr/Finish Tech Group” of the SME has tasked itself to manage the project and use it’s member resource pool to provide tooling, applications, and the necessary documentation and reporting to objectively test cutting tool edge radius improvement on tool life and piece part consistency. This is a proposed outline on how to organize and conduct such a test. It is the intention of the participants to publish a document, possibly an SME Technical paper or article, at the conclusion of the study.
To see an example of some superfinishing equipment being used for the research project see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5pyX9ix2Sw GOALS: Confirm that edge and finish conditioning improves tooling life and potentially also improves performance values in tool speed, feed speed and substrate surface finish and helps prevent part surface finish deterioration from tool wear over extended periods of time.
See below an operational video of a machine that can be used for edge prep and isotropic surfacing of tooling
See also below further part application photos by Mark Riley, BV Products and Dave Davidson, SME MMR Tech Community Network
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY – David A. Davidson, [dryfinish@gmail.com]
Mr. Davidson is a deburring/surface finishing specialist and consultant. He has contributed technical articles to Metal Finishing and other technical and trade publications and is the author of the Mass Finishing section in the current Metal Finishing Guidebook and Directory. He has also written and lectured extensively for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Society of Plastics Engineers, American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Association and the Mass Finishing Job Shops Association. Mr. Davidson’s specialty is finishing process and finishing product development.
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