PCD Speeds

ORDER NOW - TOLL FREE (888) 404-5097 Free UPS Ground on orders over $100 International Customers Click Here

Product Categories

Boring Bars Brazed Boring Tools Carbide Inserts CBN Inserts Ceramic Inserts Cermet Inserts Diamond Coated Inserts Drills Grooving Inserts Indexable Drill Inserts Indexable EndMills Machining Software Milling Inserts Overstock Inserts PCD Inserts Profiling Inserts Spare Parts Specials Threading Holders Threading Inserts Tool Bits Tool Holders

Items in your cart

Empty

Technical Information

Contains information about:
Speeds and Feeds
Troubleshooting
Application Examples
Calculators

Need Help?
If you need assistance finding
your item or additional product
information, contact our
customer service department

Home All

WHAT IS POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND?

Diamond is the hardest, most abrasive-resistant, material known to man. These properties make diamond an ideal cutting tool. Within the crystal structure, however, fracture planes, used by the diamond cutter to produce the gem diamond from the rough, can cause catastrophic breakage of the tool edge, when subjected to impact.

DR-PCD tools incorporate Polycrystalline Diamond blanks produced under conditions of high pressure (1 million PSI) and temperature (1700 Degrees C), similar to those of diamond synthesis. Randomly orientated, carefully selected synthetic diamond crystals are grown together on a hard metal substrate. This results in a material with the hardness, abrasive resistance and high thermal conductivity of diamond with the toughness of hard metal. Using the hard metal substrate the PCD blank is brazed to a carrier, either steel or hard metal, and machined by grinding or E.D.M to produce the cutting edge.

When compared to other cutting tool materials, there are three main reasons for using DR-PCD tools:

Increased tool life results in reduced tool cost per component and less idle machine time.
Increasing cutting speed improves productivity through reduced cycle times.
Other less productive machining methods can be replaced by DR-PCD

RECOMMENDED SPEEDS AND FEEDS FOR: POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND
RULE OF THUMB:	Use standard carbide guidelines to start and then increase cutting rates.

PCD	SPEED (SFM)	FEED RATE (IPR)	DEPTH OF CUT (INCH)
ALUMINUM ALUMINUM(5-8% S1) ALUMINUM(8-12% S1) ALUMINUM(14-18% S1) COPPER BRONZE BRASS BABBIT CARBON GLASS FIBER CARBON COMPOSITES SINTERED CARBIDE HIGH ALUMINUM CERAMICS WOOD AND COMPOSITES	3000-5000 4000-6000 3000-5000 1000-3000 750-1500 1000-1250 2000-4000 800-1200 500-1000 750-1000 500-2000 30-50 1200-2400 8000-13000	.005- .008 .010- .020 .005- .015 .002- .010 .003- .008 .003- .008 .003- .010 .003- .010 .005- .015 .001- .010 .005- .015 .004- .006 .001- .004 .010- .010	.005- .020 .005- .020 .005- .020 .003- .015 .005- .020 .005- .020 .005- .020 .005- .020 .005- .030 .001- .002 .010- .100 .0005- .005 .0005- .005 .010- .100

Return to Technical Resources