More Featured Micromachining Videos

• Video: Micro Inspection at Matrix Tooling

  Various inspection and measurement resources help a moldmaker produce tooling for tiny molded parts.

• Hard Milling Isn’t Just High Speed Machining

  Milling complex forms in hardened tool steel involves more than just fast, light cuts, says this maker of medical-related injection molds. Here are some of the ingredients of an effective hard milling process.

• Thread Milling On A Tiny Scale

  Machining internal threads in difficult materials is challenging, especially when hole diameters are small. Thread milling offers advantages for these applications that are important to consider.

• Video: Faster Micro-Finishes for Micromachining

   Smooth finish comes from balanced cutting parameters, as this video explains.

• Video: Drilling 0.020-Inch Holes In Stainless Steel Aerospace Part

   This footage on a small drilling machining also includes machining with full-size tools in the same cycle.

• Video: Linear Motor Micromachining Center

  Video shows the smooth, quiet, rapid motion characteristic of effective micromilling.

• 50-Micron Milled Channels

  Video captured with a microscope shows that a full-scale machining center is capable of micro-size milling work.

• Electrode Loading for Fine-Hole EDM

  The Makino EDFH1 is a fine-hole EDM machine capable of machining holes as small as 10 microns in diameter using a 6-micron-diameter electrode. One user of this machine is Hummingbird Precision Machine in Lacey, Washington. This video taken at Hummingbird shows how the electrode is loaded.

• Micro-Turned and Micro-Milled Workpiece

  Video captured with a microscope shows micromachined part.

• Threading A Horizontal Wire EDM

  A wire EDM machine designed for micromachining uses negative air pressure to thread the fine wire.