Medical bone screws, implants, feed screws, worm gears and other micro-components creates a need for techniques that produce special thread forms quickly and at high tolerances.
CoroMill® 325 thread whirling inserts and holders meet this need for a large number of sliding head machines and whirling units. They can thread long, slender components from rough stock at high speeds and produce a wide range of high precision screws without the need for a dedicated thread whirling machine.
Benefits
- Increased productivity
- Chip control
- Increased tool life
- Cost saving
- High quality threads
- One grade for all materials
Features
- Compatible with many sliding head machines and spindles
- Deep threads are easily made
- No additional finishing operation is needed
- Optimized for titanium and stainless steel
- Blanks and engineered designs available for own unique profiles
Application
Typical components
- Bone screws
- Spinal screws
- Dental implants
- Other long, slender components
Typical materials
- Titanium
- Stainless steel
Workpiece material area
Workpiece materials covered by the grades offered consists of stainless steel, non-ferrous alloys and titanium. However, other materials can also be machined. Contact your Sandvik Coromant representative for more information.
Product Range
Whirling rings for different sliding head machine tool makers:
- Citizen
- DMG MORI
- Doosan
- Goodway
- Hanwha
- Nexturn
- Star
- Tornos
- Tsugami
Inserts for standard and special threads
Standard inserts for thread whirling of HA and HB threads forms are available as stocked items. These threads have the specific dimensions and tolerances needed for bone screws and other medical implants. But any thread profile that can be fitted within the insert blank can be offered as engineered solution. Contact your Sandvik Coromant Representative for more information.
| HB thread |
Recommendations
Step by step instructions
- Rotate the whirling ring and component in the same direction (climb milling) for best results regarding tool life
- Rotate the whirling ring to actual cutting speed
- Rotate the workpiece at a slower speed, coordinated with the tool rotation to get the feed per tooth wanted. Coordinate movement of the whirling ring with the rotation of the component for best surface and productivity
- Find a whirling ring fitting your drive unit and an insert fitting your desired thread
- Mount the whirling ring onto the whirling unit and install the inserts
- Set the tool inclination to the helix angle of the thread and set the centre of the tool to a zero position of X=0, Y=0
- Program the ring off-centre, in relation to the diameter according to the diameter of the screw wanted
- Turn and mill any tip of the screw wanted
- Start the thread whirling machining.
- Feed the workpiece info the cutter coordinated with the rotation to generate the thread.
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