Just what is a carbide burr
Carbide burrs are tools useful for deburring, cutting, shaping, grinding, and chamfering hard materials. Different cuts of carbide burrs will be ideal for many materials.
Carbide burrs are utilized in air tools including die grinders, pneumatic rotary tools and high-speed engravers, Micro Motors, Pendant Drills, Flexible Shafts, and hobby rotary tools.
The reason to use Carbide burrs over HHS(high-speed steel)?
Carbide comes with a Extremely high heat tolerance that allows these to operate at higher speeds than similar HSS cutters, yet still maintain their cutting edges. High-speed steel(HSS) burrs will begin to soften at higher temperatures while carbide Maintains hardness even under compression and it has Longer working life and is also a more sensible choice for very long term performance on account of higher wear resistance.
Single-Cut vs Double-Cut
Single cut Burrs are for General Purpose. It’ll give good material removal and smooth workpiece finishes.
Single cut is employed with metal, hardened steel, copper, certain, and ferrous metals and will remove material quickly having a smooth finish. Can be used Deburring, cleaning, milling, material removal or creating long chips
Double cut Burrs accommodate rapid stock removal in harder materials and tougher applications. The designs reduces pulling action, that enables better operator control, and reduces chips
Double cut burrs are used on ferrous and non-ferrous metals, aluminium, soft steel and for all non-metal materials including stone, plastics, hardwood, and ceramic. This cut has more cutting edges and definately will remove material faster.
Double-cut will leave a smoother finish than single-cut as a result of producing smaller chips because they cut away the pad. Use double-cut for medium-light stock removal, deburring, fine finishing, cleaning, smooth finishes, and creating smaller chips. Double cut carbide burrs will be the most widely used and work with most applications.
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