Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
(OP)
I would appreciate any recommendations.
Thanks,
Tom
Thanks,
Tom
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.





RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
you are the carbide guru. Do you mean carbon grades?
As in carbon fibre?
B.E.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Thanks for the compliment. We keep up on wood, non-ferrous and plastics. Wondered, if anyone knew from actual use, about drilling carbon fiber.
Tom
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Most of my drilling of carbon fiber is on light aircraft maintenance and repair.I specialise in the repair of advanced composite sailplanes. I tend to use a slow twist solid carbide drill, to avoid chipping up and delaminating the surface layers. However I have never really paid any attention to the particular grade of carbide used.I just change them when they get dull.
I have more problems drilling aramid fiber, avoiding the fuzzies, cutters have to be sharp for that. This is most likely not going to help you much, but it may provoke a response from other users now they know what you are looking for.
B.E.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
You might ask up at Electro-Impact (in Mukilteo) and see what they say...
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
I have repeatedly read K10 to be a good starting point.
experience suggests that because of the extremely high abrasiveness you would see little difference between them anyway. Coating any less than a true diamond coating don't produce great improvements either. You can of course have 'diamond like coatings' redressed. true diaomd coatings generally cannot be.
If you have the money buy 'solid' PCD. if you're carefull you will see a drop in cost-per-hole.
better late than never.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
I have to agree about aramid fibers, those fuzzies are terrible! Also just keep the tools sharp.
David
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
You still running a repair station?
Ton, the OP makes these carbide tools and is a good guy to know about.
I just keep a very sharp high speed steel plane blade for Aramid and shave the fuzzies of afterwards.
Brian E.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Timber and housing are very slow but aerospace seems to be doing pretty well. Just looking for some grades to sell to them.
Berkshire, thanks for the recommendation but I am afraid I don't know what an OP is.
Tom
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Tom,
An OP is an original poster.
B.E.
RE: Best carbide grades for aircraft composites
Got laid off from the repair station a little over 2 years ago. I'm working as a System Safety Engineer for the Navy now. Just an fyi, I think there is a C-70 that will be sold at a sheriff sale soon. The owner isn't a member of the glider club anymore and hasn't paid rent for a couple years.