The powders are incredibly fine and hard to work with.  If you’ve ever had to work with toner powder you’ll understand. A big advancement has been spray drying which creates ultrafine powders and makes them more mixable.

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If you look at it from a certain standpoint you really don’t cut steel. Rather you could consider it that the process of cutting steel is actually more a scraping action. This makes more sense if you consider that steel is a homogenous material and compare that to something, such as wood, which is a heterogenous material.  Wood is a bundle of individual fibers that have to be actually severed.

Milan's Machining and Gear Manufacturing, Inc. operates from a single location at 1301 south laramie avenue, cicero, illinois 60804, united states.

Milan's Machining & Gear Manufacturing, Inc. is a full-service machine shop specializing in custom machining and manufacturing services. With over 50 years of experience, the company offers a range of precision machining services including CNC horizontal boring, milling, turning, VTL, grinding, honing, hobbing, threading, and more. Located in Cicero, Illinois, Milan's emphasizes customer requirements and quality control throughout its processes. Their 85,000 square foot facility, qualified machinists, state-of-the-art equipment, and engineering personnel enable them to manufacture special equipment and fixturing to meet diverse machining needs. Milan's is dedicated to providing high-quality products and services tailored to meet specific customer specifications.

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There’ve been huge advances in the tungsten carbide and cutting tool tip industry in the three decades I have been in it. This is especially true in the last decade.

Cermet stands for metal based ceramic.  Thus tungsten carbide is technically a cermet. The way I got the story was that ‘Cermet’ came to mean titanium nitride, titanium carbonitride or similar was due to a translation error. An American asked a Japanese what the new material was called and the Japanese said that it was a cermet. Because it was a titanium based material the term cermet came to be used for titanium based materials.

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The language in this industry is often very imprecise. A great many manufacturers are now and have always been extremely reluctant to share any technical data. I too have heard, as has CarbideBob, that the MG 18 grade is 10% cobalt. Lately I have heard that it is 20% cobalt.

This necessity to make ultrapure materials created the technology to make ultrapure materials which has been adapted into the tungsten carbide industry.

The headquarters of Milan's Machining and Gear Manufacturing, Inc. are located in 1301 south laramie avenue, cicero, illinois 60804, united states.

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Milan's Machining & Gear Manufacturing, Inc. is a full-service machine shop specializing in custom machining and manufacturing services. With over 50 years of experience, the company offers a range of precision machining services including CNC horizontal boring, milling, turning, VTL, grinding, honing, hobbing, threading, and more. Located in Cicero, Illinois, Milan's emphasizes customer requirements and quality control throughout its processes. Their 85,000 square foot facility, qualified machinists, state-of-the-art equipment, and engineering personnel enable them to manufacture special equipment and fixturing to meet diverse machining needs. Milan's is dedicated to providing high-quality products and services tailored to meet specific customer specifications.

Tungsten, carbon and cobalt powders are just a start.  There is quite a variety of other metals that are added to control grain growth, to change the characteristics of the binder and otherwise improve the materials.

As part of our work on filtering coolant we got peripherally involved in plants for the manufacturing of computer chips. In these operations they measure contamination in terms of individual atoms. A single sulfur atom can ruin a transistor or similar device.

There were some excellent discussions above about edge prep. As near as I can tell, much of what look like disagreements was actually accurate information about differing methods.