Comparing carbide-tipped tools with carbide inserts, there are several advantages to consider. Firstly, the initial tooling costs are significantly lower for carbide-tipped tools. Secondly, the insert pocket in carbide insert tools can interfere with chip flow, while the vibration-free brazed carbide tip of carbide-tipped tools permits higher feeds and speeds, as inserts cannot be securely clamped to avoid all vibration problems, resulting in a far better finish. Lastly, inserts are impractical for many operations, such as reaming and most drilling, making carbide-tipped tools a more versatile choice in these scenarios.

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An alloy of 25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper, essentially white in colour, was adopted for coinage by Belgium in 1860 and by the United States five years later. More recently it has been employed as the outer layer of copper-centred coins. Pure nickel was adopted by the Swiss for coinage in 1881; this use has spread to many other countries.

A remarkable group of nickel-containing permanent-magnet alloys was developed beginning in Japan in the early 1930s. An early example contained 25 percent nickel, 12 percent aluminum, and the balance iron. More powerful versions, such as Alnico V (containing 8 percent aluminum, 14 percent nickel, 24 percent cobalt, 3 percent copper, balance iron), developed in the Netherlands, were heat-treated in a magnetic field. These materials had a profound effect on the design of many electrical devices, including magnetic separators, DC motors, and automobile generators.

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While price is always a consideration, the real measure of the tool’s value is its in-plant performance. HANNIBAL’S tool performance is proven where accurate records are kept, such as the aerospace and automotive industries. Here our tools earn “excellent” ratings … and that is why we are one of the fastest growing tool companies in the world.

Pure nickel possesses a useful combination of properties, including corrosion resistance, good strength, and high ductility, even at extremely low temperatures. It also possesses useful electronic properties and special magnetic properties. Nickel is a particularly good catalyst for the hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds in vegetable, animal, and fish oils, converting them from liquids to solids. Natural oils treated in this way are used in such products as shortening, oleomargarine, and soap.

Nickel is resistant to corrosion by fluorine, alkalies, and a variety of organic materials. It remains bright on indoor exposure but tarnishes outdoors, although its corrosion rate is very low. Its low corrosion rate, coupled with its resistance to corrosion by sodium chloride and other chlorides used on roads during the winter, makes it essential as an undercoat on chromium-plated automotive trim. Heavy nickel plating is employed as a lining for tank cars and as a coating for the inner walls of large pipes and similar equipment in the chemical industry.

Hannibal Carbide Tool, Inc. prides itself on its world-class difference, marked by consistent quality. Achieving ISO 9001 certification in 1999 and Ford Q101 certification in 1989, the company has a mature quality system recognized by many major end users. Their continuous product and quality improvement, with an emphasis on defect prevention and variation reduction, ensures tighter tolerances, better products, longer tool life, less downtime, and lower tool costs per part machined.

The only description required to order a standard tool is the EDP number. However, as a cross-check, orders should include a brief description of the tool.

Because of our exceptionally broad product listing of over 16,000 line items, our distributors seldom stock our tools unless they have a consistent demand for particular tools requiring same day delivery. HANNIBAL maintains a 99% line item order fill rate. We have a huge inventory of finished tools ready to meet your needs.

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The addition of copper to nickel provides a series of useful alloys. Monel metal, 67 percent nickel and the balance essentially copper, is stronger than nickel and has broad corrosion-resisting applications. Extremely resistant to rapidly flowing seawater, it has many marine uses. The addition of a small percentage of aluminum and titanium renders it precipitation-hardenable; this high-strength version is widely used for propeller shafts. Increasing copper to 55 percent produces the electrical resistance alloy known as constantan, which is used as a thermocouple in conjunction with pure copper.

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When comparing carbide-tipped tools to high-speed steel, the advantages are clear. First, carbide-tipped tools can operate at higher feeds and speeds and maintain their cutting edge even at very high machining temperatures, allowing for more aggressive machining that reduces cycle time. Secondly, they exhibit exceptional wear resistance at the cutting edge, maintaining their size much longer. Lastly, they offer far longer runs before needing resharpening, which not only reduces machine downtime for tool changes but also ensures the chip forming surface resists wear much better, minimizing cratering.

The ancient Chinese alloy pai-t’ung, now known as nickel-silver, contains 10–30 percent nickel with the balance copper plus zinc. This alloy continues as a favoured base for silver-plated ware. It also is used as a spring material for relays and has numerous other applications.

The white colour of nickel is attractive, and most of its alloys with copper are substantially white. Its ability to form strong, ductile alloys with many metals, including iron, chromium, cobalt, copper, and gold, is utilized in industry.

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The first major market for nickel was in the production of nickel and nickel-chromium steels for armour plate, an application based on the work of James Riley of Glasgow, Scot., in 1889 and tests by the U.S. Navy in 1891 on armour plate from a French steel producer. Military demands supported the industry for many years, but, with the development of steam-turbine power plants, the automobile, agricultural machines, and aircraft, a whole new group of high-strength steels containing from 0.5 to about 5 percent nickel along with other metals such as chromium and molybdenum were developed. More recently, with a demand for steels for ultralow-temperature use with liquefied gases, steel of 9 percent nickel and alloys of higher nickel content have come into demand. These steels rely on carbon for hardening by heat treatment. The nickel toughens the steel and slows the hardening process so that larger sections can be heat-treated. A carbon-free iron alloy known as maraging steel has been developed. It contains 18 percent nickel, plus cobalt, titanium, and molybdenum. This alloy can be heat-treated to provide a tensile strength of some 2,000 megapascals (i.e., 21,000 kilograms per square centimetre, or 300,000 pounds per square inch), coupled with an elongation of 5 to 10 percent.

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Normal procedure is to ship all distributor orders by UPS, unless requested otherwise. Our lost shipment insurance does not cover shipments sent “freight collect.” Buyer accepts the title of the goods at the shipment point and assumes all risk once the seller ships the product, including goods that are lost or damaged in transit. In the event of a damaged package, the damaged package must be saved and photographed by the receiver for UPS claim purposes submitted by the shipper.

The 30 percent and 10 percent nickel-copper alloys, usually containing 0.5 percent and 1.5 percent iron, are widely used in the form of tubes for heat interchangers and condensers. Their resistance to seawater corrosion makes them important in desalination plants. Copper-based alloys containing a small percentage of nickel become precipitation-hardenable if 5–8 percent tin or a smaller amount of silicon or phosphorus is added. These have special uses.

HANNIBAL prides itself on the ability to solve end user tooling problems. We will suggest solutions including tool designs that have been used successfully to solve similar problems. Our proven applications engineering capability is reflected in the fact that some of the largest machine tool builders select HANNIBAL to design and produce the original cutting tools used in producing engines and transmissions.

Our plants have consistently passed quality system inspections by key engineering, production and purchasing executives of our major tool users. HANNIBAL became ISO 9001 certified on August 18, 1999 and Ford Q101 certified in 1989. HANNIBAL’S manufacturing team produces the standard tools listed and the “specials” requested by our customers.

In the debate between carbide-tipped and solid carbide tools, there are distinct benefits to carbide-tipped tools. The first advantage is the selection of carbide grade for cutting characteristics without compromising structural strength, enabling more aggressive cutting edge geometries and a hardened tough alloy steel body that absorbs shock loads well. The second advantage is that cracks in the carbide are stopped in the steel body pocket, reducing scrap and machine downtime since a cracked carbide-tipped tool can continue cutting, unlike a shattered solid carbide tool. Finally, carbide-tipped tools usually cost less than solid carbide tools, as expensive carbide is only used for the cutting edge and chip forming surface, often utilizing specialty carbides not available in solid round forms.

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Nickel is essential as the base for oxide-coated cathodes used in all television tubes and all but the largest radio power tubes. Alloyed with about 2 percent tungsten plus a trace of magnesium, nickel is used as the cathode base in amplifiers for submarine cables that are expected to function for 20 years without attention.

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The fact that nickel changes in length as it is magnetized makes it useful as an ultrasonic transducer in various underwater defense devices. Alloying nickel with about 21 percent iron has a spectacular effect in producing alloys with extraordinarily high magnetic permeability in weak fields. This type of alloy, known as Permalloy, discovered at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1916, has had a great value in long-distance telephone transmission, including undersea cables. Other alloys of about 45–50 percent nickel and the balance iron, have been developed for magnetic uses at higher field strengths.

Invar, an alloy containing 36 percent nickel, with the balance iron, is notable for its extremely small thermal expansion. Discovered in 1898, it has, along with later-developed nickel alloys, many applications ranging from thermostats to balance wheels for watches, metal-to-glass seals essential to electric lights, and radio tubes.

Nickel also is an essential component of white-gold alloys widely used for jewelry. These alloys also contain nickel, copper, and zinc, all of high purity.

Over 20% of all standard tools ordered include requests for one or more modifications. On each page of this catalog is a list of the modifications most commonly requested. Just phone, fax, or e-mail us for an immediate quote. Modified tools are delivered promptly and are competitively priced.

HANNIBAL’S engineers, technicians, tool makers, sales & support staff are continuously focused on the goal of producing the world’s best carbide tipped tools. Our experienced tool makers sincerely want to do their best and, in fact, do their very best every day making every effort to manufacture tools that will meet your exacting needs.

To ensure exceptional service & technical application support, HANNIBAL only sells through selected distributors, your communications link with us. If you require direct technical assistance, contact our Engineering and Technical Service Team.Phone: 573-221-2775Technical Support

30% of HANNIBAL’S sales are special order tools made to end user’s specifications and prints for the very demanding automotive, diesel engine, aircraft engine, aerospace, and construction equipment industries. To meet these stringent requirements, our engineers and tool makers work daily with exacting tolerances and procedures.

All our tools are manufactured to one or more of following specifications:USCTI – United States Cutting Tool InstituteNAS – National Aerospace StandardsISO – International Organization for StandardizationASME/ANSI – American National Standards Institute, an affiliate of American Society of Mechanical Engineer