Diamond-Coated End Mills for Machining Electrodes
Adding on to Crystallume’s Standard Premium and Lightning coatings is Stealth, the company’s thinnest diamond coating for highly detailed moldmaking work.
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Stealth-coated cutting tool (left) versus uncoated cutting tool (right). Photo Credit: Crystallume
Crystallume, known for its chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond technology, features its three diamond-coated tool lines — Standard Premium, Lightning and Stealth — for machining the thinnest details in graphite electrodes.
The company’s newest and thinnest diamond coating, Stealth, is only 2-3 µm thick, ensuring that tools with the coating have the sharpest solid diamond cutting edge available, according to the company. Depicted in the images above via scanning electron microscope is a cutting tool with the Stealth coating (left) and one without (right).
Four-flute Stealth end mill series are available, with a cutting diameter of 1/32 to ¼ and overall length of 1.5-4".
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