External Thread Milling in Hardened Steel: Toolpath Strategies and Cutting Tips
Last month, a mold shop in Stuttgart sent a scrapped ejector guide pin to our lab. The part was vacuum-hardened AISI D2 tool steel (1.2379) at 62 HRC with an M16×1.5 external thread. The shop tried single-point threading on a lathe. They shattered three coated inserts in a row. After 14 hours of upstream machining,
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