Different kinds of cutting tools and their applications

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Different kinds of cutting tools and their
applications
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Alligator Shear

• Also known as a crocodile or lever shear with
  a hinged jaw and powered by a flywheel or
  hydraulic cylinder.
• They are sued for cutting long metal stock or
  scrap, generally where accuracy is not so
  important.
• It is often used with large metal shredders to
  clean or prepare the scrap for shredding.

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Abrasive Saw

• Also known as cut-off saw or metal-chop saw.
• It is specifically used to cut hard materials
  such as metals.
• Portable abrasive saws have made site jobs quite
  easier.

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Bandsaw

• It uses blades consisting of continuous band of
  metal with teeth along one edge to cut various
  work-pieces.
• Bandsaw helps in uniform cutting as it has evenly
  distributed teeth load.
• They are used in cutting meat, metals and even
  hard timbers.

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Diamond Saw

• A variety of diamond saw blades like circular
  diamond blades, drills and surface grinding
  wheels are used in construction work.
• They are used in cutting stone, cobalt, asphalt,
  bricks, glass in the construction industry.
• Diamond saw tools are sued in cutting
  semiconductor materials in IT industry and
  cutting gemstones like diamonds in the gem
  industry.

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Hacksaw

•  A fine-toothed saw for cutting metal.
• Also used in cutting plastic and wood. For eg.
  Plumbers and electricians often use them to cut
  pipes and plastics.

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High Speed Steel

• It is a subset of tool steels, and is commonly
  used in tool bits and cutting tools.
• It is often used in power saw blades and drill
  bits.
• They allow cutting faster than high carbon steel.
• The main use of HSS continues to be in the
  manufacture of various cutting tools drills,
  taps, milling cutters, tool bits, gear cutters,
  saw blades, router bits etc.

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Jigsaw

• A tool used for cutting arbitrary curves such as
  stenciled designs or other custom shapes into a
  piece of wood, metal or other material.
• Modern jigsaws are power tools made up of
  electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade.

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Milling Cutters

• They are cutting tools used in milling machines
  or machining centers to perform milling
  operations.
• They remove material by their movement within the
  machine or directly from the cutters shape.
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Bimetal Bandsaw

• They are metal cutting blades used on the bandsaw
  to cut carbon steels, tool steel, structural
  steel, stainless steel, pipes and tubes.
• They can even cut ferrous and non-ferrous metals
  such as brass, aluminium bronze or steel.

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Tungsten Carbide Tipped (TCT)

• TCT saw blades are used for industrial use in
  cutting metals, aluminium, wood or plastic.
• The cutting edge consist of a separate piece of
  material either brazed, welded or clamped on to a
  separate body.

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