Getting Chips Under Control

To ensure reliable chip breaking and the optimal machining performance, MAPAL has now developed a new chip guiding stage for the machining of steel. When undertaking the fine machining of steel, long chips can prove detrimental to machining performance and surface finishes, especially when machining with tools that incorporate guide pads.

To prevent long chips from wrapping around the tool and creating a negative impact on surface quality, dimensional accuracy and automated process flow, MAPAL has introduced the new line of inserts with chip guides.

The new chip guiding stage combats these very problems, credit to the new geometry design. With a special geometry that has been designed and optimised with extensive FEM analyses and practical testing, MAPAL now ensures that chips are broken reliably. This prevents automated workflows and production environments from being disrupted. The chip guiding stage is compatible with all indexable inserts with AS leads. Furthermore, the new chip guiding inserts are available with a wide variety of coatings to support the machining of a vast selection of material types. That means the new chip guiding inserts can be integrated with the relevant inserts irrespective of the application in question.